impersonal
Sunday, October 29th, 2006…she was quite loud, impersonal. something unsettling in her way of saying things, like there was no past between them, like they were suddenly new to each other.
– i’m about to leave, but perhaps we can talk tomorrow – she said, nonchalantly.
– sure. whatever you want – he said, in a sad, grey, fathomed tone.
and then she hanged up, he thought. the silence was beyond what a telephone auricular usually whispers. after a minute or so, he checked the phone line by tapping on the hang trigger. no response. the line seemed to have died suddently.
it felt like something got broken, but like green twigs. no sound, not a crack, not hurtful. just broken, almost bent, but broken.
the house felt a little more chilling than before. but he thought it was just psychosomatic. all the windows were closed, and it was winter. perhaps a little more humid, he thought.
he stood up slowly, like he weighted a tonne. then he stepped slowly to the living room, then to the reading room.
he sat in his designer’s armchair which let out a moaning while he rest his legs and body. strange sounds today, he thought. very strange sounds.
he took his newspaper and started to read. but it seemed unfruitful. his eyes couldn’t focus, his head felt like on first gear. it did not make sense, he felt he was reading, but couldn’t even recall what was that he was reading about. his mind was not somewhere else, but nor it was here. it felt like it did not exist anymore. the whole sensation started to feel real, understandable. the feeling of floating started to emerge to his consciousness. his arms were there, but he couldn’t feel them. same as the legs, eyes and mouth. then he noticed he was breathing. slowly, independently, almost like not caring for air, mechanically. he slowly regain a notion of what was around, it being just his breathing. it was all that happened, nothing else. nothing else in the room, nothing else in the world.
he thought, for a second:
– even this is better than crying…