The private home
Palamira branches are usefully placed in such a way as to facilitate the body's ascending movement when climbing the tree. |
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They say the mist that forms on the glass sides of bus shelters causes inscriptions made years before to reappear. Some even go as far as to claim that these inscriptions were originally formed in the sand used to make the glass. They were supposedly written by all those who, having gone off into the desert in search of some truth, lost their way in the moving sands. To avoid sinking too quickly, they tried to control their nerves by tracing inscriptions with a pleasant movement of the hand. They did not try to find out what they were writing; they just wanted to find the words that would hold them for as long as possible on the surface. The ones who came back spend their time breathing on the windows in the hope of finding their inscriptions and at last grasping their meaning. |
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When they have their hammer in their hand, wrought iron workers build up their courage by telling themselves stories. For extra efficiency, many of them do so in Morse code and by alternating heavy and light blows of the hammer lend rhythm to their work. |
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