"I've been looking at you for several minutes" "Didn't you notice it?" "Is that you?" "Didn't you really notice it?" "It seemed you were crying." "Me?" "It was a joke." "Rum balls!" "This time I'll hide them, although I had trouble going to confession." "The last time you came there were quarrels among the sisters." "Well, how are you?" "I feel awful today." "Because of the crime?" "How do you know?" "Everything is known inside here." "And who told you?" "You, the ones outside." "What things they come to tell you." "At least they remind us what we left outside." "Do you need that kind of feedback?" "You can learn from sin too, Blanca." "And... do you sin?" "Blanca, aren't we inside here flesh and blood too?" "I thought you were all saints." "My dear cousin, don't be foolish." "Didn't you enter here to be so?" "Yes, and I keep trying." "Your family didn't think so." "Really?" "Well, at least your father doesn't." "Everybody else think you're going to be a living saint." "If you won't, you'll disappoint them." "They've already started boasting about it." "Well, Blanca, you didn't tell me." "How are you at work?" "Don't you want me to tell you things about the family?" "Sorry, I forgot it's forbidden." "Why do you speak nonsense?" "Do you think so?" "I can't put it right." "But I'd like you all to be as happy as I am." "Are you really so happy?" "Yes, Blanca, very." "Aren't you?" "I guess I'm not as much as you are." "What's the matter?" "Nothing much." "You can tell me if you want." "What for?" "Is it about your work?" "No." "Please, Blanca, what's the matter?" "It can't be sorted out anyway." "Talk about it with me." "What for?" "You can't sort it out, and neither can I." "Is it serious, then?" "If I tell you, you'll be shocked..." "Well, however you want..." "Have you ever been in love?" "Is that what's happening to you?" "Yes, sort of." "But it's better not to tell you." "I wouldn't have the courage to come again." "I don't know if I'm saying this to you because you're locked up in there or because I thought I'd get comfort." "Maybe it's just I didn't sleep tonight, and I'm quite nervous." "Everything has a solution." "Solution?" "What solution?" "Can't you tell me more?" "No, leave it." "I feel much better now." "Are you alone?" "Don't you have any friends?" "Don't you know anybody in this city?" "Love letter from a killer" "Ancient Spanish music from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance." "Help me." "You don't look very excited." "No, it's not that." "Then, what?" "I don't know." "I didn't expect it." "I guess I have to get used." "I find it's too much." "It is." "Didn't you want an old house?" "This one is old as well as circular." "I suppose there's cutlery and everything." "Have you checked it?" "Can I help you?" "Here, take them." "How did you know I went to see my cousin?" "You told me, don't you remember?" "I don't remember having told you." "Then it was somebody else." "Let's go." "To our future unhapiness." "Why?" "Come on, drink." "Don't be rude to me." "Can you explain what you meant?" "Let's eat this." "It's delicious." "I don't know why you're so mysterious." "Don't you like it?" "No." "I thought you were more imaginative." "What are you playing at now?" "Do you think it's game?" "Do you think I'm having fun?" "You name it." "Please, Blanca, eat." "Don't make it harder." "Why harder?" "Explain what you mean." "I think everything is clear enough for the three of us." "We look as clumsy as a married couple." "And we women aren't like that." "At least I wouldn't like it." "You know." "Unfortunately, I do." "Please, Blanca, at least let's try to behave properly." "Leave me alone." "I feel ridiculous." "I disgust myself." "Don't be silly, Blanca." "Do you want us to do what he did?" "Hide?" "No, surely not." "We better talk." "Don't you realize?" "Don't you understand it's about my marriage?" "At least, give me some reasons to leave you." "Explain them to me." "Don't you see I need them?" "If I could I'd leave you both." "I'll probably have to do it." "To be honest, I'd be sorrier about you than about him." "I'm telling you the truth, and I need you to believe me." "I really need it." "If I'm going to be alone, it'd be better anywhere else but here." "I just wanted to talk to you." "I needed it." "Leave it, we'll talk later." "I need to rest." "We can talk about whatever you want later." "But not now." "I can't." "Don't you know?" "What?" "About the killer." "You too..." "He was a member of this library." "Sorry?" "He was a member for a long time." "One of the oldest ones." "He used to come here a lot." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "He stayed until we closed the library." "He came even more lately." "Do you know who I'm talking about?" "No." "Well, so what?" "I can't imagine how a person like that can do such a horrible thing." "Two years ago I did his card myself." "Besides, he was well-known in the city." "A cultured, polite man." "Here he came." "He used to write more than read." "Last year he gave to the library a poetry book he wrote." "No, I don't know who he could be." "The former manager of the library and he were friends." "She included the book in the collection." "But are you completely sure?" "Here, give them to Ram�n to put them away." "They're already put on file." "My Dear Mrs," "I've been waiting such a long time..." "So many hours and minutes... for you to notice me, to meet." "I've eventually decided to get in touch with you." "It's important to me." "Irreplaceable." "Since that will make me strong to do what I should've resolved before." "Since I saw you, I felt something fatal would happen to me." "It's like I've been waiting for it since the beginning." "When I saw you I had a feeling." "This is the most secret justification of life for me:" "love." "Which is unknown to many men." "Yes, love." "The love I feel for you." "I've been struggling against this love." "But I can't deceive myself anymore." "I need your help to survive." "You can't imagine the sadness of my life." "I see it constantly, in every shadow, asleep or awake." "Only the love can give a meaning to my hopes." "That love I need so much." "But this is impossible." "I'll close my eyes so that I can't see anymore." "Because later on the dissapointments would be too much for me." "And I couldn't accept them, ashamed of myself." "Nobody's to blame for what I'm going to do." "I'm my only killer." "I myself have forgotten the reasons to do such a thing." "And don't understand anymore how things end up this way." "Only my love for you is left." "It's my tragic fate not to stay next to the person I love." "I really want your hapiness to be much more complete than mine." "Just once a year the dead live one day." "Antonio G�mez." "Do you know?" "Have you talked to Luisa?" "Is it true that that man was a member of the library?" "Was?" "I think he's still alive." "Did you know him?" "Yes, yes." "We were friends." "Friends?" "Yes, yes." "I think he's the only one interested in everything kept in here." "Did you know what he was going to do?" "No, of course not." "But if you were friends, he had to tell you something." "Something about his life, his things." "Well, yes, of course." "What about?" "About the books he asked me for, about he wrote about." "Things like those." "Anything else?" "Nothing else." "Ok, you can go." "NIGHT OF MY DREAMS." "Poetry." "On an unhappy day,/ in a fleeting moment, presumption and vanity,/ to a soul mate." "You might never notice me." "I even remember the dress you wore the first day I saw you." "I remember its colour, its movements." "I'm sure your clothes have a special smell which has an influence on me." "Everything got saved for my sweetest worry, for my comfort, my source of life, my loneliness and my death." "Yes, my death." "I think one should be felt excited about something like that." "I sometimes think:" "Wouldn't be I the only one who's normal surrounded by monsters?" "Am I bound to loneliness?" "Am I not prepared to hapiness?" "Since then, I've found the reason to do what it's going to happen inevitably." "I'll close my eyes, so that I can't see anymore." "Because later on the dissapointments would be too much for me." "And I couldn't accept them, ashamed of myself." "Nobody's to blame for what I'm going to do." "I'm my only killer." "When I saw you arriving, and above all, saw you leaving..." "When I felt the closeness of the beloved one..." "Since no one can give what I wish." "My life became anonymous." "I know that my confession has no meaning to you." "I'm desperate but extremely happy too." "The happiness of being in touch with you." "I'm sure that I've found in you..." "A spiritual quality I never achieved." "That sublime seriousness, that quiet nobility." "You passed in front of me and I didn't dare look at you." "I guess neither you looked at me." "Even your body brushed me once." "This is the most secret justification of life." "Love." "Which is unknown to many men." "Listen, Mrs!" "Wait, please." "You forgot the paper." "Me?" "Not me." "Yes, it's yours." "What do you want?" "Don't bother me." "I just wanted to be polite." "It was on your table." "Well, thank you." "I don't need it anymore." "I think you misinterpreted me." "I just wanted to give it back to you." "I've already thanked you." "Now, go." "You told me it wasn't yours..." "...and I've seen you reading it." "Thank you very much." "Who is it?" "It's me." "Come on." "Open up." "Can't I come in?" "Yes, of course." "I'd like to know what you have come by for." "I didn't know you were afraid of me." "Don't speak nonsense and tell me what you came for." "I'm busy." "Aren't you going to close the door?" "What's the matter with you?" "And what about you?" "Me?" "I'm looking for Luis." "I thought..." "...he would be here." "Check it out." "Forget no corner." "Didn't you really see him?" "I don't want to see him again." "And now, go." "Please, Blanca, it's very important for both of us." "Not for me." "I know he's been here in the city since 3 days ago." "Look for him in another place." "I don't care." "You don't believe me?" "Then you'll be the first to know." "We're done." "I think we shouldn't meet again." "It's for the better.-Are you sure?" "Yes" "A very easy attitude to take." "No, it's not." "Tell me, if you want, if he's been with you." "It's been 20 days since I saw Luis." "And we said goodbye for more than that." "And you know it." "What do you mean?" "I'm tired of you, your arguments, your secrets, everything." "I played the role of fool in this story." "Neither mine was very brilliant." "Yours is different, Charo." "You're another kind of woman." "Well, can you be clear about it?" "There are some things I'll never be able to speak clearly about." "Go on, say something!" "Deep down you enjoy this situation." "They're the little pleasures of life..." "As far as I'm concerned, they're done to you." "And go now." "MINISTRY OF EDUCATION NATIONAL READING CARD" "THE KILLER IS STILL MISSING." "Do you remember him now?" "The one who sat in the reading room, at the first table." "No." "Did you deal with him?" "Did you talk to him?" "No." "Just the essentials." "Nothing special." "The burial was incredible this morning." "There were thousands of people." "I think the whole city was there." "Sorry?" "The burial of the four people who died." "Two of them were well-known lawyers." "The streets were crowded." "Everybody was talking about it." "I've never seen anything so appalling." "The worst thing is that they haven't found him yet that he's still missing." "Tell Ram—n to come." "Yes." "Excuse me..." "It's about Ram—n..." "You have to talk to him." "I didn't want to tell you before because..." "Come on, say it." "What?" "He's always bothering me." "And the readers notice it." "What does he do?" "When I'm putting the books away he looks at my legs." "But yesterday he touched me." "But how?" "Where?" "Thank goodness there were few people." "But he doesn't mind." "It has happened several times." "Well, tell him to come." "Yes, Mrs." "Come in, come in." "Have a seat." "Haven't you thought about telling the police?" "Me?" "What for?" "You know things." "I know nothing." "You could tell what you know about him.-I know nothing." "You told me you were friends." "You used to talked to him." "Yes, but only about the library." "What can I tell the police?" "Don't you realize that something awful can still happen?" "They didn't find him." "You say it as though I'd be involved." "No, you don't understand me." "What am I going to tell them?" "I saw him here like you." "Me?" "I didn't know him." "You told me you talked about what he wrote." "Yes, but not much." "Some mornings by the river, fishing." "And..." "Didn't he tell you more?" "You know, only small talk." "He wrote poetry." "I'm asking just in case you could remember something you were afraid of telling." "Afraid?" "Of what?" "Of something the police could use." "I don't know." "If you remember something, you can tell me anyway." "Yes." "Well, you can go." "You never saw him in the library?" "No." "I've already told you." "He did see you." "He didn't take his eyes off you when you left." "Anything else?" "No." "Nothing else." "I've been waiting such a long time..." "So many hours and minutes... for you to notice me, to meet." "I've eventually decided to get in touch with you." "It's important to me." "Irreplaceable." "Since that will make me strong to do what I should've resolved before." "Since I saw you, I felt something fatal would happen to me." "It's like I've been waiting for it since the beginning." "When I saw you I had a feeling." "Everything got saved for my sweetest worry, for my comfort, my source of life, my loneliness and my death." "This guy was already crazy." "Why didn't they lock him up?" "Did you want anything?" "I'm leaving." "Look up who took this book lately." "It must've happened these days." "Whoever did it, expel him." "If they ask you for this book again, say it's withdrawn." "And withdraw the card too." "Do you mind if I do it later?" "I'm going to have lunch." "Excuse me, Ram—n." "What problem do you have with Luisa?" "There's no problem." "Look, Ram—n." "You can do whatever you want in your private life." "But here in the library you can't." "There are doctors here." "Excuse me, but I have to leave." "Have you understood me?" "Yes, of course." "Do you want me to walk you home?" "No, no." "Thank you very much." "I eat lunch near here." "I live alone." "Don Antonio sat at that table." "Sometimes with his son." "With his son?" "Yes, when he came to pick him up." "Haven't they found him yet?" "No." "I don't think they'll find him." "If I had done such a thing, I would've tought before." "And I think Don Antonio had been thinking about it for a long time." "Why do you say that?" "I'm just speculating." "Don't you think so?" "Me?" "But you don't have to worry." "Some day they'll find him, here or abroad." "Can you speak more clearly?" "If you want, we can have lunch together." "No, no." "As you wish." "Did you see him often?" "No." "You're wrong." "They serve a great food, I warn you." "It's not expensive." "I'll invite you." "No, leave it." "You can go, thank you." "I'd appreciate that you don't talk with Luisa about this." "She's different from you, and she could get it wrong." "Besides, don't forget you're working here." "I beg you to behave yourself." "Yes, I understand." "I beg you too not to talk to anyboby about it out of here." "Is that clear?" "Don't be afraid." "I've already told you I live alone." "Very well, thank you." "You can go." "Bring me the pot, please." "You don't like them, do you?" "Neither do I." "Fish do like them." "It doesn't surprise me because they're very expensive." "200 pesetas, and with sawdust." "Anyway, you don't understand it." "If you gave me some free afternoons, we'd get on better." "You think so?" "That's funny.-I'd never seen you laughing like that." "There aren't many chances to laugh." "You have to look for them." "Don Antonio used to come here." "Poor man." "Fish made him sick, but he was a good man." "He kept me company." "I suppose you talked too." "Yes, of course." "And you want to know it, right?" "Do you see there?" "At the curve?" "He wanted to buy all those fields and build a small house there." "He had the same taste as me." "What else did you talk about?" "Well, he came here, wrote his verses ...and then he read them to me." "Having so much money and he spent his time doing that..." "It's a pity." "You'd probably have understood him better than me." "Go on." "Don't you think so?" "I do think so." "Finish it." "What for?" "You're getting nervous." "Forget it." "As you wish." "You're like Don Antonio but in woman." "Don Antonio was very cultured." "But he didn't understand life." "I'm happier with my rod that him... and you." "And now, if you pardon me, I'll look after my rods,that's what I'm here for" "BURIAL OF THE VICTIMS" "THIS TRAGIC CRIME MIGHT REMAIN IN THE MOST ABSOLUTE IMPUNITY." "Didn't you want to talk to me?" "That's why I'm here." "Who are you?" "I know who you are." "You don't know me, but I do know you." "Who are you?" "My father used to come here." "Come on, let's get out of here." "Let's go outside." "What do you want to go there for?" "Come on, let's go outside." "No." "Here." "I have to go." "Tell me why you go there." "Please." "Come with me." "Come." "And your father?" "He's there." "But where, there at the river?" "Yes." "Is he alive?" "No, I hid him." "You?" "Don't you realize they're looking for him?" "Don't you realize what he's done?" "My father didn't do anything." "He didn't." "Go there and you'll see." "Go tomorrow." "Don't leave now." "It'd be nonsense." "What you need is a good dinner." "You are my guest." "Don't worry about anything." "First, have dinner." "With an empty belly, this doesn't work." "Hold on, Ram—n." "Talk to me first." "Forget it." "They were only silly things." "Leave that and listen to me." "Have dinner first." "We have plenty of time to talk." "Don't worry." "I've already had dinner, but I'll help you anyway." "You'll like them." "It's a pity there are only a few left." "It's a great dish, very nutritious." "But what do you think?" "I shouldn't've scared you..." "If I hadn't done it, you wouldn't have come here tonight." "Obviously." "Look at its colour!" "Come closer." "Don't you like the smell?" "Give me a hand." "Watch them." "They musn't get burnt." "It's almost finished." "Keep an eye on them." "You know what?" "I don't even believe that Don Antonio killed anyone." "You know what he was?" "He was corny." "Why did you scare me, then?" "I don't want you to be scared." "It's not that." "I haven't taken my eyes off you, either." "I sometimes looked at you and at Don Antonio." "And you didn't look at anyone." "Yes?" "Yes." "Well, this is ready." "Take one and try it." "They're tastier if they're still hot." "It's good, isn't it?" "Are you there?" "Answer me." "Is it you?" "What did you have with my father?" "Me?" "Why do you ask?" "I read a letter." "What letter?" "A letter he wrote you." "Did your father tell you about me?" "He was writing a letter and..." "..." "I'm sure it was for you." "What did the letter say?" "I don't know." "But it was for you, I'm sure." "Why are you so sure, if you don't know what it said?" "Why are you so interested?" "Why didn't you go to the police?" "It's what I'll have to do." "No, it's better for you." "Don't go." "What do they want to know for that he's dead?" "Nobody cares." "Nobody worried about him." "Then you'll have to go." "Don't you understand you can't keep it this way?" "Don't you realize that your father is there?" "He's your father!" "No, they won't discover it." "You musn't tell anyone." "Now everyone is looking for him." "But no one worried about him before." "No, he couldn't do it." "He hasn't done that." "I'm sure he hasn't." "They're who forced my father to do that." "And now he's dead." "I buried him there." "It was horrible." "But I had to do it." "Nobody should know he's there." "You musn't say anything." "I won't say anything about you." "I don't even know how you alone can deal with this situation." "Don't they notice at home?" "Who cares." "They hide what's happening to my mother from me." "Besides, I don't meet them, and that's better." "They don't want to hear anything from my father.He sent my brothers abroad." "What are you going to do?" "What was my father like?" "Did you see him?" "For the last time?" "No, I didn't know him." "I never saw him." "Did he do that?" "When did you know that your father was there?" "On Monday." "Was he dead?" "Yes." "He had killed himself." "There?" "Yes." "He hasn't come." "No, I've already told you." "Does he often do it?" "No, it's the first time." "He might be ill." "Do you want me to help you?" "No, he'll pick it up tomorrow." "Don't bother." "I'm in a hurry, otherwise I'd do it myself." "Coffee?" "No, thank you." "The bill, please." "I even remember the dress you wore the first day I saw you." "I remember its colour, its movements." "I'm sure your clothes have a special smell which has an influence on me." "Everything got saved for my sweetest worry, for my comfort, my source of life, my loneliness and my death." "Yes, my death." "I think one should be felt excited about something like that." "I sometimes think:" "Wouldn't be I the only one who's normal surrounded by monsters?" "Am I bound to loneliness?" "Am I not prepared to hapiness?" "Since then, I've found the reason to do what it's going to happen inevitably." "I'll close my eyes, so that I can't see anymore." "Because later on the dissapointments would be too much for me." "And I couldn't accept them, ashamed of myself." "Sit down, if you want to." "Haven't she written you?" "Who?" "Charo." "Why?" "She's gone." "She's gone?" "But how?" "where to?" "I don't know." "When?" "Yesterday." "Didn't you know?" "Didn't she tell you anything?" "No." "Come on, sit down, if you want to." "Do you really know nothing?" "Haven't she gone to see you?" "Keep the change." "Well... goodbye." "Wait, Luis." "Wait." "Stay, stay and let's talk." "What for?" "Hold on, please." "Just a moment." "Don't you say anything?" "Although you won't believe me, I'm sorry too." "Being sorry isn't a help." "Everything is absurd, isn't it?" "Not for me." "You live on your own." "It isn't absurd..." "I do love Charo." "And you've ruined it all." "I don't understand why you brought me here." "You should've gone with him in the car." "Do you have any matches?" "I don't smoke." "What were you doing waiting for me at the restaurant?" "That." "Wait for you." "Won't you get it?" "Open, open." "My Dear Mrs," "I've been waiting such a long time..." "So many hours and minutes... for you to notice me, to meet." "I've eventually decided to get in touch with you." "It's important to me." "Irreplaceable." "Since that will make me strong to do what I should've resolved before." "Since I saw you, I felt something fatal would happen to me." "It's like I've waiting for it since the beginning." "When I saw you I had a feeling." "This is the most secret justification of life for me:" "love." "Which is unknown to many men." "Yes, love." "The love I feel for you." "I've been struggling against this love." "But I can't deceive myself anymore." "I need your help to survive." "You can't imagine the sadness of my life." "I see it constantly, in every shadow, asleep or awake." "Only the love can give a meaning to my hopes." "That love I need so much." "It's my tragic fate not to stay next to the person I love." "I really want your hapiness to be much more complete than mine." "Just once a year the dead live one day." "Exteriors shot at..." "Subbed by Ottto"