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need for anybody to look after him
during the two weeks that the doc-
tor had advised him to stay home
without going to work.
He felt strange in a vague sense,
but with enough physical strength
and in the mood for enjoying his
convalescence in the solitude that
he cherished so much. Neverthe-
less, around midday and after
eating a bowl of cereal with milk,
he decided to lie down for a few
hours and take a nap.
It was the first time since he had
come out of the coma that he
would try to sleep without taking
any medicine. All the previous
days, at the hospital, he had to
take some sedatives to get to
sleep. A persistent insomnia had
been one of the consequences of
the accident and, when he man-
aged to sleep some hours, he
woke up extremely tired as if he
had been working hard.
He drew the curtains of his bed-
room window, took all his clothes
off until he was completely naked
and slipped between the sheets.
He turned over and over but sleep
did not come. When he got tired
of trying to sleep, he got up and
grumpily resorted to a couple of
pills that plunged him into the
heaviness of a drug-induced sleep.
He was determined to stop de-
pending on drugs to sleep, and
for the next four days, he did his
best to get rid of that anchor. On
the fifth day, he finally succeeded.
For three hours, he was immersed
in a deep slumber, so deep that,
when he awoke, he thought that
only few seconds had passed by
since he had closed his eyes at
two in the afternoon though the
clock indicated five fifteen.
He felt physically tired; but, since
the accident, this feeling had be-
come recurrent after sleeping.
Despite having taken a long nap,
his exhaustion helped him get to
sleep again without sedatives that
night. He fell asleep around one in
the morning and opened his eyes
twenty minutes to eleven. Tired,
he did not even remember having
dreamed.
At eleven thirty in the morning, the
telephone rang. It was Walter’s
boss congratulating him elatedly
for the brilliant ideas Walter had
contributed to the sport footwear
campaign, which had been the
key to obtaining the lucrative con-
tract.
Walter did not remember provid-
ing any idea for any sport foot-
wear campaign, but he cunningly
spoke as if he stayed absolutely
abreast of everything. He did not
want his boss to believe that in ad-
dition to the time that he was tak-
ing off work due to the accident,
he had also lost his memory. On
the other hand, he was not inter-
ested in losing the generous com-
mission his bank account would
receive for those alleged ideas.
He said to himself that there were
only nine days left to return to work
and that later everything would be
back to normal: his work routine,
his walks back home from office
– this time paying more attention
when crossing the streets – and,
finally, the chance to devise some
strategy to approach the new