"Name?" " Cipriano Canedo" "But everybody calls me Cibrán." "Age?" " Thirty two years" "Married?" " No" "Rajada!" "I thought you wouldn't come." " Come on, I want to talk with you." "Try them." "Tomorrow I'll start working in the Cock's furnaces." "It's a permanent job, do you know?" "Do you like them?" " Yes, they're all right." "Listen, Rajada..." "I've thought a lot about it and it's time for us to put things in order." "I'll give you the wage everyday and I think that we'll have enough to live but I don't want you to keep working in the Morfontina's house." "Come on, speak, tell us what happened!" "Are you happy?" "When you're here, I'm happy even thought I don't sleep in the bed." "Then close your eyes, it's very early." " Why have you beaten mum?" "Why do you say so?" " I've heard her saying 'ay ay' a lot of times." "That's because you were dreaming." "And now you won't leave us more?" " No, I go to work and I'll come back." "Where are you going Cibrán?" " To work, leave me alone but, why don't you leave me alone?" " Don't go, come with us." " No, I can't." "Where do you come from?" " He asks where we come from..." " You are drunk, aren't you?" " Yes, since yesterday." "Come with us." "Go to work, go to work, fucking stupid man  up and down, go to work" "Stop there!" " No, no." "Leave me!" " Son of a bitch!" " You're going to kill him!" "You don' t know how to drink." " Fucking judge..." "Get out!" " You're crazy." " Hey you, come back or I'll eat your liver!" " Somebody is coming!" " Do you have a light?" "Your friends are enjoying themselves." " Yes... things of Saint Monday." "The blood won't reach the river!" " Well... then see you!" " See you." "I can't believe it." "You are dearest friends." " Mind your business, this is our problem." " Fuck you both then." "You are two of a kind." "I'm going." "Bye." " Cibrán, wait... wait, man Where do you go in so quickly?" "...Besides, you don't arrive to the roll Cibrán, don't leave me alone whit this, I swear you I'll kill him." " It's your fault" " Yes, I know..." "What happens is that I appears and I can't get rid of him." " Maybe you look for him." "That's exactly the problem, I don't have fun without him, do you know?" "And there's always a moment in which I have to beat him, for one thing or another." "I don't know what happens to me, but I don't have fun without him." "Maybe he can control you, because there're a lot of ways  of convince somebody." " Cibrán, don't say that again not even jokingly, do you hear me?" "Not even jokingly." "I love you but I won't tolerate that." " Don't be stupid and leave me alone, I have to go to work." " Forgive me." "The problem is you have hit the nail on the head and thinking that that shit can ...dominate my will... please, don't leave me alone with him." " I can't." "I must go to work." " I'll pay you the wage, I have money." " I don't want you to give me anything." "If I go, I go." " Look, now you have a drink and later you can do whatever you want." "Hey Bocas, that fagots have their eyes on us." " Cibrán, why don't you go home?" "With this feet you can't go to work and neither walk over they're looking for problems." " Hey you, wait." " Who, me?" "What do you want?" " I bet one of orujo against the one you have in your hand." "You say that the deaf-mute grandfather is going to win this trick." "I say no." " The fear keeps the vineyard." " Come on, do you bet or no?" " I only bet when I am playing" " All right, then play if you want to." " But not to a game of hazard but a game of head." " And since when do you have head?" " Leave him, Thousandmen, I'll play with him." " What game are you talking about?" " Cups pair with gold and clubs with swords." "It's a business of memory." "Each one lifts two cards." "That who gets more couples wins." "Come on, you first." " No, you." " It's the wine's against the orujo's." " These guys are cheating." " What's the matter with you?" " Son of a bitch!" "Cheaters!" " That's all." " AII?" "That's just the beginning, go on!" " Como on!" "Go on!" " How are you Socorrito?" "Do you want me to make you a child?" " No, I can't have a child with you because you smell bad." "Sorry..." "You smell delicious." "When are you going to make me child?" " Tomorrow, Socorrito, tomorrow, today I'm in a hurry." "Let's go." " Socorrito, do you want me to make you a child?" " No, you smell very bad, and besides, I don't believe you, everybody tells me the same they make them but later they don't bring them to me..." "What for?" "Leave him, he's ill, he has a fever." "It's true... nobody brings them to me." " He's just hot, like you." " It's true, nobody brings them to me they say it, but never bring them." " This girl is crazy, do you hear her?" " Let's go..." "let's go." " Goodbye." " What for?" "They don't bring them." "All they are liars." " What have you done?" "I'd better have gone to work." " Your job again!" "You have born to be slave, aren't you?" "Look at me, what I owe to the work?" "A pang here that leave me breathless and that almost made me blind..." "And what did they tell me?" "You don't serve" "Like that!" "That simple." "And Bocas, you can see him, no sooner e could, he escaped from the hole and he did it in time" "No like his father, that..." "came out dead" " But I have a wife and a child and I don't like your sprees and less if there's a dead guy in them." " How do you know he's dead?" " The stab was very hard" " You talk like an old woman "a wife... a child" that's what they want to trap you." "And when you can't work any longer they'll put your son in your place and with your wife..." "you know what they do with your wife." " Don't worry, Cibrán you'll think about that other day." " Yes, in prison" " Nothing of prison while there's money left the sprees must go on." " Why don't we go to Andrada's palace?" " What for?" " To see the woman that is said to be locked up there" " I don't believe it." " It's said to be as pretty as a devil." "Some people say that he killed her and buried her in the garden" " Those are stories." "Who has seen her?" " I want to find it out" " Come on, jump!" " I..." "I'm going" "Look at that..." "Do you see her?" " What's wrong with you?" " Nothing, it's nothing" " Have you had a bad dream?" " No...it's the thought." " Thought?" "What thought?" " I don't know..." "I feel it coming I feel it coming suddenly but I can't do anything" " Hell, what a strange thing" " It's something familiar, it happens to my sister too sometimes she loses consciousness and foam goes out her mouth" " Listen, won't it be madness?" " Maybe, I have to be crazy to come whit you" " No, man..." "I'm the crazy here I haven't could forget that woman" "Damned!" "And besides, the spirit is over Fucking country!" " I can't stand it more." "I go home" " Don't leave me alone, Cibrán I ask it as a favour" "I can't be whit that, besides... we can't stop the spree while there's money left, it's brings bad luck." " But I promised to Rajada that I won't go back to my old tricks..." "I really meant it." "I asked her to leave the Monfortina's house." "And, you see, at the first occasion..." "And a man shouldn't do that!" "Besides, it's the child, the damned boy learns everything." "This morning I asked him if he was happy and do you know what he answered me?" "That when I was at home he was always happy and that he wasn't cold even thought he couldn't sleep in the bed and I don't want that the nuns take him and he spent the whole day praying like those who are going to be executed." " Don't think about that, when the spree is over you'll go home and everybody happy" " And the muleteer?" " What muleteer?" " That one we left almost dead in the Esquilacha's tavern" " He'll be all right." "This is my problem." "You had nothing to do, everybody saw it." " I'll end up in prison." " If someone is going to have problems because of this, that is me, and look at me." "Do you think I'm afraid?" "No, they won't see me cry." "And I also have a mother that is going blind and that I'm killing with sorrow since the day I was born." "But I don't complain." "And don't you think it doesn't hurt, but I don't complain, I'm this way." "This has nobody, maybe he is a garbage but he has good conscience." "Yes, good conscience." "There is he, sleeping like a log." "He knows that any misfortune that happens to him will be a joy for most people." " What's the matter?" " The elections!" " What elections?" " A catholic lady is coming to buy your vote for a mattress." " I prefer the marquis of Almendralejo." "He gives bread, oil and chorizo to the ones who vote to the right wing I've read it in the Socialist." " For me the lady and the marquis, tururú!" "Where can we go now?" " I don't know but let's go." "Cibrán!" "Do you need help?" " No" "Did they never make you a child?" "Hurry up then, because they're going to run out." "For me, the first one was the Portuguese in the woods." "He told me..." "but he never brought it to me, me, me." "Portuguese, fucking pig... ris, ras upon me and the child never arrived." "I'll marry the marquis quis, quis..." "The Portuguese was ugly and smelled bad" "But the marquis is handsome, rich, and smells nice he'll make me twenty children." "You smells really nice!" "When are you going to make me a child?" " Tomorrow Socorrito, I don't have time for that today." " What's the matter?" "Why don' they open?" "What are you doing?" "Is there wine?" " Cibrán take whatever you can and go out!" " You aren't going to like what I've found." " But it's a wine cellar, isn't it?" " There are only rats." "We can only get what we have already." " Well, then open the door!" "Hey!" "It's daylight." " You can eat and drink whatever you want." " Your friend sleep like a log." " Yes, he has a very deep sleep." "This wine is excellent, I can't stand the acidity because of my ulcer but this is a natural green wine." "It's magnificent, don't you think?" " It reminds me of my uncle's wine when..." " Cibrán, you never finish what you're saying." " Because he thinks before talking." " What I was going to say wasn't important." " Don't be so sure, you never know." "Well, listen..." "I teach classic languages, I live in Lugo." "That man is not a friend of mine, I don't even know him." " Hell!" "What is he doing here, then?" " He looks like Cabito." " I don't know, I have told you I don't know him." " Cabito or not, he seems to be dead, not slept." " He is dead, indeed." "I have brought him from Lugo in a carriage that I've left hidden between the trees." " And do you like to travel with a defunct?" " I understand that my presence with a dead man is strange." "Since I'm obliged by the circumstances, I'm going to tell you what happened." "I rely on your discretion." "Anyway..." "I can't do anything else you have surprised me and I owe an explanation to you." " You don't owe anything to us." "We aren't going to tell the authorities anything." " I know, but you'll see..." "I'd want ask you for help." " We don't do charity and we don't like to be in troubles." " I ask you for listen to me first and then you can judge." " Speak." " As I have told you I teach classic languages and until last night my life was completely normal." "It was twelve o'clock and I was knitting as usual." " Hey, professor!" "You knit like women." " You can think it's effeminate, but I find it very relaxing." "I have a very nervous temperament." "During the private classes, if I have familiarity with the pupils I knit." "Everybody knows in Lugo that peculiarity of mine." " Here they'd call you fagot for much less." " Don't mind him, professor, go on." " It was twelve o'clock, as I've said, when somebody knocked at the door." "It was a lady..." "whose name is not important to who I taught Latin." "Very pretty, by the way." "She was very nervous and ask me for help" "Something terrible had happened." "Her lover had died in her arms." "But that wasn't the reason for his desperation." "The tragedy resided in that the corpse was in the woman's room." "And the husband was about to arrive." " God!" "What a situation!" " I couldn't refuse to help her." " And what did you do?" " I went whit her." "It wasn't easy." "The decease happened during the exercise of love the body was distorted by a sudden pain  or an irresistible pleasure." " A good death, I'd like to die like that." " The husband's car was in front of the door." "I don't know what to do." "I thought in putting the corpse in a wardrobe as everybody does in these situations." "But she told me it was ridiculous because it's the first time where the husbands look." "So my pupil became converted in my teacher and she thought up the plan." " Good evening." " Good evening." "Well, it's your turn." "For the first time in my life I had a poker of aces." "And I didn't cheated, I swear it!" "I understand your fit of hilarity." "I understand you but this question is very serious." " Serious?" "I haven't heard anything so funny since my grandmother was deflowered." " When I have arrived to the end of the story you won't think the same." " Go on, professor... go on." " I was going to take him to the hospital and declare that he has lost consciousness playing cards." "But something incredible happened." "Do you know what it was?" "A knitting needle!" "A long and sharp knitting needle." "My pupil, the honourable lady, the bitch, had stabbed him with it between the ribs, piercing his heart." " A murder!" " She had murdered him, yes." "Who could I tell the truth?" "We had been seen playing cards." "And besides, one of my recognised abilities is to knit." "Who could I have convinced?" " What do you want to do with that dead?" " To throw him in the pool of acid that is near the Cock furnaces." "Now that you know the truth, if you help me I'll reward you." "If you aren't going to help me, I ask for you to keep the secret." " We'll help you." " Where it is?" "Here?" " Yes, very well." "I acknowledge all that you have done for me." " This guy is crazy and speaks like a fagot." "And if everything is a lie?" " Where can we go?" " I don't know, but let's go." "There's an idea I can't forget that woman." " Here there is for more than a spree, leave all that ghosts and take the money." "This is too much money for a man with a good consciousness." "I think that the professor was a fag." "I can't stop thinking about her..." "so white... so distinguished." "Did you see how he throw the money?" " Since she had that lover he treat her like a whore." "Come on, forget this stories and let's spend all this money." "Come on, Bocas!" "I don't know what are we doing here." " Go away!" "There's no room!" " Open, Culipava, it's me, Bocas!" " Tomás come back... come back home." " Tomás, come back home, man!" " I come down to give you an explanation." "We can't open to you the Catalonian travellers are here, they are going to spend the night here." " But, what are you doing?" "Close and stop!" " Yes, Pioja, they are with the Bocas!" " Come on, we're from the same village." " Look who's talking, the Rajada's man!" "You're murderers!" "This morning you leave one man almost dead." " Do you know her?" " No." "But I'm sure Cibrán knows her." " No, I don't know her." " He is Cabito." " Cabito again?" " He is Cabito, wait until he stops kissing her and we'll see his face." " I bet one duro that it's him." " What do you say, Cibrán?" " I don't care." " Well, it's going to be difficult to see him." "He doesn't separate a moment, he is really insistent." " I'll solve this right away." "Cabito!" " Go on, maybe that way he'll stop." " Cabito!" " Assholes!" "Fagots!" "Bastards!" " Cabito!" " Rascal, scoundrel, I'm going to kill you, bastards!" " Shut up, old bitch!" " Cabito!" "Good evening." " These are doing the nocturnal adoration." " And now, where can we go, Bocas?" " I don't know, but let's go." " I'm going back home." " What do you say?" " Don't leave me alone, Cibrán." " Don't be killjoy!" " We have no place to go." "And with that muleteer almost dead..." " No, man!" "It was only a scratch!" "That is as healthy as you and me." " Why don't we go to Matildona's house?" "She doesn't know anything, sure." " What do you say, Cibrán?" "A revel without women is not a revel." "If before drinking you want to make a wish or to hear from people who are dead or away, ask Andrea "The Thornback" she'll answer you to everything." " No, we don't want to know anything." " Why don't we ask about the muleteer?" " What muleteer are you talking about!" "Now he'll be better than we are." "So, let's drinking!" " Hello, Cibrán." " Hello." "What's this?" " Our best client." " Leave her, she 's for the notary!" " Ah..." "God!" " Bring a pot of tripe, these men are hungry." " We haven't eaten." "My stomach still aces." " Ah, Thousandmen!" "Your nickname is not correct you should be Thousandwomen because you're very delicate." " Come on, bring the trip." " Why don't you make with me the same that this made with Rajada?" " Don't say nonsense, Viguesa, before died than married." " Do you want to come inside with me?" " Not tonight." "I'm drunk." " Cibrán, why don't you go home?" "The Rajada and you're son are waiting for you." " Fuck you, stupid bitch!" "Cibrán it's old enough to know what he must do." " Shut up, Thousandmen!" "If Cibrán is here that's because I've asked him for it." "He's making me a favour." " Besides, everybody is free." " No, The Thornback is right." "I should have gone to work today." "But sometimes I don't know what happens to me, the 'thought' comes and..." " This happens to everybody!" "The horse is not only made for the stable and for pulling of the cart it also likes to roll over the grass." " And to run trough the mountains." " And the mares that are not from the stable." " Let's stop talking and drink the queimada." " Come on, you too." " Have you tasted a queimada as good as this one?" " It's very good." "What do you say, Cibrán?" " Nor dry neither sweet, perfect." " We all know that the Matildona can do this very well..." "and other things too..." " Horses, horses... nor from farm yard, neither from stable, neither form grass neither from the mountains." "Slaughterhouse horses that's what you are and where you'll end" " What?" "Have you quarrelled with Rajada?" " No, I haven't quarrelled with her." " Why don't you take him through the other door, you stupid?" " What's the matter?" " We are going to have problems." "You have seen how he looked at them." " And so what?" "We saw him too." "And we know him as much as he knows us." " Then you'll know that he is the clerk of the court." " And what if he is clerk of the court or a priest?" " Nothing, but I've heard that you had problems in the Esquilacha's tavern." "He'll denounce you." " No, he won't do it." " It wouldn't be profitable for him." " Come on, come with me." " No, I don't like a woman who has been with other man before." " That one, a lot of fantasy and later nothing." "Everything here and nothing down here the poor man can't forget that his wife is unfaithful to him with Cabito" " He was Cabito!" "I told you." " Go to wash yourself, all we know the filthy things that guy does." "And leave Cibrán alone!" "You dirty!" " They say that Cabito went yesterday, leaving written that he was going abroad forever." " If they say so...it may be." " Hell, the trip!" " God, Cibrán, I can't forget her, I swear I'm trying but I can't." "God, I can't!" "What's the matter with you?" "What means this craziness" " It's not craziness, he's hot." " Go with Rajada." "She is as bitch as the others." "All we know that her mother gave her to Mister Juan, the notary when she was thirteen and since then..." " I told you to go washing up." " Here are the trip." " Come Cibrán, don't leave me alone with this guy because I'll kill him." "Are you coming or not?" " Yes, I'm going..." "I'm going." " I don't ask you to come." "If you're afraid, that's up to you." "I warn you, you're better not coming." "What I want is to be with that woman even if I have to kill everybody that try to stop me." "So, you are warned!" " You're crazy!" "Come on, fuck him!" "If they shoot him, it'll be his fault." " No!" "I won't leave him alone even thought I think what he does is a crazy thing." " Re-pu-bli-que Fran-cai-se" "Hell!" "Cough mixture!" "Cognac!" "Bocas..." "Cognac!" " Let's go!" "Stop it!" " The room smells of this." " It itches in the throat, isn't it?" " Doing dirty things... these bodies moving like animals the sweat an the sheets and I seeing it all Why don't you move now as you moved then?" "Move your hip for giving me pleasure." "Mutter the obscene words that my ears heard." "Why don't you tell them the things you told him?" "Don't you remember?" "Remember that filthy things while you moved you moved sweating under him." "No, it' wasn't like that." "You panted like a pig you puffed breathlessly, you exploded of pleasure." "I remember very well every detail, as if I was seeing it." "Do you remember?" "You opened your legs, your arms... for him." "You opened yourself completely." "You abandoned yourself to him." "Il étais ici... avec lui Il t'étranglait et tu relais de volupté Plus ces images me terrifiaient, plus je jouissai de les voir" "Take that... for your work." " She's dead!" " She's alive, I've seen her." " And how she moved!" " There were two of them." " Damn it!" "We have been seeing things!" " That's because of that smoke." " She's alive." " Help... help me." " Bocas!" "Bocas!" " Leave him!" " Help me!" "Help me!" " She was mine, I had her in my arms." "Why did you do that?" "Damned faggot!" " That woman you like so much, that lady, was like the others a filthy woman!" "It made me feel sick." "To see you with her." "Besides, I've saved your life." " Let's go!" "I couldn't do anything, I swear it." "I tried to save her but I couldn't." " You set fire to Andrada's Palace." " Listen, Cibrán." "I'll never forget what you have done for me" "We're going to have problems with this." "Maybe we should go to the station, separately, ...take a train and go away." "Until things go better." "Although... you could stay here." "After all, you didn't do anything." " No, I don't want to go to prison." "There, they beat you as if you weren't a man." "I don't want to go there, I'd prefer to be killed." " You didn't do anything, Cibrán." "Besides, if you want, I'll sign a paper saying it." " You know how the authorities are and you know what they would do with that paper." "Besides, you can't write." "Then, I'll go to the Mayor's house I'll put a knife in his neck I'll tell him the truth... and he'll testify in favour of you." " The Mayor is a pig, and that will be a crazy idea." " What does it matter, Cibrán?" "One more crazy idea, what does it matter?" "That shit has ruined everything." "When I had her in my arms..." "You saw her, Cibrán!" "What a woman!" " But the house was on fire." " What does it matter to get burnt like that?" " Bocas, Bocas, look Bocas, look!" "But Thousandmen, in spite of being a fag, wasn't worse than us." "Each one with his ideas, all we are equal." " That's true!" "All pigs are alike." " Yes, sir, all them, those who beat a defenceless man too." "And Bocas Where is he?" "...What is he doing?" "...What is he doing?" " Thousandmen, stop, stop!" "Thousandmen, come back, come back!" " Bocas!" " Why has he done this?" " I don't know... it was as if..." "he was jealous like a woman." " God!" "Cibrán, don't leave me alone." " Halt!" "...Halt!" "Halt!" " Thousandmen!" " Bocas!" " Cipriano Canedo better known as Cibrán after effectuating his deposition recognising to be guilty take the knife that was over the table and stuck it... without nobody being able of stop him" "...between the ribs..." "So, therefore I testify that he didn't die beaten" "...but stabbed." "Because if you do something, you must do it right."