Rough play

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In that dirty game, if I hadn't seen his legs, nothing would have happened. There would have been no murder, not a wait, nor a miserable and unsatisfying pursuit. There would have been, not more, the routine of everyday life, the work, at sea, the lonely cot in that stronghold that was their home. And if done and debated, something had happened, he would have limited himself to reading it in the newspaper, the protagonist would have been someone else, and another murderer and the one in love with a girl he would have always ignored who was wonderfully beautiful. But he saw her, and then he could not know that it was as deadly as a loaded firearm. He just knew he wanted her. Later he had to add: at whatever price. But by that time it had already escaped his hands…, if it had ever been there. MANUEL DE PEDROLO (The Spider, La Segarra 1918-Barcelona, 1990), Honorary Prize of Catalan Letters, is one of the most important writers, and undoubtedly the most prolific and the most widely read of Catalan literature of the 20th century. Among his works it is worth noting Avui pas parla de mi, All beasts of burden, and the cycle of novels Open Temps and Mecanoscrit of the second origin.