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Heberto Castillo's words summarize the predicament of living in parentheses, waiting for news, a rumor that will end the pause. Martín Caparrós wrote with irony that the earth was flat again: we only see it on the screen. He also recalled the renewed relevance of the dedication of Zama , a novel by Antonio di Benedetto: "To the victims of waiting." True to its aesthetic, that book awaited its readers for years. The story takes place in the 18th century . An official of the Spanish Crown is sent to a distant rural frontier and longs to be transferred to Buenos Aires. He does nothing but wait: «I asked myself, not why he lived, but why he had lived. I assumed it was because of the wait, and I wanted to know if he was still waiting for something. I thought so. "You always expect more."

In 1956, when the novel appeared, Diego de Zama's fate was seen as that of an 18th- century existentialist . Condemned Phone Number List postponement, he has no certain reward, but he maintains the resistant exercise of waiting. His disillusioned fortitude is not that of someone disillusioned, but that of someone who persists.



The cultural history of patience has antecedents that depend more on reading than writing. Whoever delves into a book is, necessarily, a hopeful person. The infinite collection of the Bible offers anecdotes that exegetes turn into parables. Erri De Luca, Italian poet, ecological activist, mountaineer and Hebrew translator, has dedicated a beautiful book to a passage from Genesis: Vita di Noč/Nňah. His reflections take advantage of the detective resources of etymologies, starting with the name of the protagonist, Nňah, which in ancient Hebrew refers to the verb "rest.