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The Trial of Strength
Domestication is a trial of strength which shows the power to subjugate and rule. Dominating and steering the opponent in the desired direction is an exercise of power similar to bending sheet metal and twisting iron. They are exercises in strength which show the resistance and flexibility of the material.
Somebody is challenging us and we have discovered this suddenly and without warning. Unexpectedly, the usual inter- locutor becomes an opponent and, at the same table, and in the same place where you live, his arm tenses to break you down. You believed that you were sharing a bed and in fact it was a tennis court, a match.The partner becomes a rival but his voice gives him away when he is careless.The gaze and pursuit were not the same and today his elegant suit is just a disguise.
In the end, we are just a ferry has helped our opponent get to the other side, in a crossing that reveals us.You were rowing full out, without realising that your effort was also moving his body.
Written in Salamanca, 20 September 1999.
First published in Fernando Sinaga, Consideraciones discontinuas, 1985-1999, Galería Bores & Mallo, Cáceres, 1999.
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