Home » Health » Silence of Light – Column by Óscar Domínguez Giraldo – Columnists – Opinion

Silence of Light – Column by Óscar Domínguez Giraldo – Columnists – Opinion

I charge with great frustration: I could not act as a guide for Jorge Luis Borges when he visited the headquarters of the Caro y Cuervo Institute in the neighborhood of La Candelaria.

(You may also be interested in: Lawful aging)

The then director Ignacio Chaves made me the cajon, and served as a guide to the “last delicate”, who felt visiting the Alhambra.

To improve my resume, I usually repeat that I ran into the memorious man from Buenos Aires on the way out of a visit to President Turbay. I mounted the chaser up 10th street.
As a raponero of the tenth, I was attentive to run away in case he dropped an exquisite irony, a sarcasm, any political incorrectness.

In January, the month in which Luis Braille was born and died (4 and 6), creator of the system that allows the blind to read and write as if they were playing a Chopin nocturne, his colleagues deprived of light light candles of admiration for him. Borges’ braille method was called Kodama.

My friend José Gabriel Cuéllar prefers the word blind to blind since he phoned an office looking for chanfa.

José Gabriel explained to his interlocutor that he was blind. “Homeless?” they asked him. “Blind, blind. Deaf!”. There was no placement.

For the rummage of vile metal, José Gabriel plays chess tournaments. But the most exotic of his trades has been that of guard…

Both José Gabriel and 3.5 million disabled people have a colleague to vote for in the next elections. His name is Juan Sebastián Ortega, who aspires to a seat in the Chamber, where he plans to displace the ‘Teodolindos vote yes’ who vegetate in the world.

Due to lizard physics, I am looking for two beautiful blind friends, twins, to implore them to vote for Juan Sebastián. Their names are María Luz (what’s behind a name?), a master’s in Latin American literature, and Vicky, a catechism teacher and radio host.

María Luz and I studied French at the Alliance in the center. Professor Noé Adarme had us translating songs by Patricia Kaas and Jacques Brel, who tells his swallow in a heartrending song (Don’t leave me): “(…) I will be the shadow of your dog”.

While we waited for the bus on 19th Avenue, María Luz, an expert on Silva, recited Borges’s sonnets on chess: “What god behind God does the plot begin…?”
Candidate Ortega, good luck with the seat.

OSCAR DOMINGUEZ GIRALDO

(Read all the columns of Óscar Domínguez Giraldo in EL TIEMPO, here)

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.