A true story

Stanisław Barszczak, The wheelbarrow boy (to be continued)

At the edge of the arid plain in Kansas, there was a wrestler with a gold belt, he hears the voice: “Protect the child!” … At the same time, only the pope of the Catholic Church builds a small resemblance to the truth in distant Rome… In the ruins of New York, a homeless pauper lifts a glass ring from the ground and feels that the Force is pervading her … At the same time, she was confronted with a confession she gave to an excellent passer-by: “I am dying”… And now another picture from the apocalyptic scenery of the newest times: the giant bunker inside the mountain in Idaho lies in ruins, and the young boy must learn to kill … On the desert-burned, mutant and plundering army, the last people on Earth are the first … Three groups of survivors strive for the place given them by destiny ; the place where the last battle between destruction and life will take place. They survived, though they had no right to survive. It’s may be the real nightmare in the next future of the world…
Nacib and Naomi continue their conversation at the bar at Sana’a Main Gate. It was an early hour of the day. Nacib had spoken: – I like words. I like greasy, buttery words such as “mule”, “satin” and “club”. I like angular and squeaky words like “puritan”, “related”, “devastating” or “cataloging”. I like lying, misleading words such as “gravedigger”, “happyness”, “prancing” or “underworld”. I like sophisticated words that contain the letter in “wonderful”. I like words that are crispy, brittle and fragile, like “splinter”, “to struggle”, “to hit” or “crusty”. I like sombre, cloudy words, such as “crouch”, “choke”, “lousy” and “choke”. I like sublime, inspired words, such as “festive,” “genteel” and “disgusted.” I like those elegant and flowery, like “summer”, “go astray”, “kingfisher” and “Elysium”. I also like squamous, sinuous and spongy, such as “crawl”, “prostrate”, “plantation” and “drip”. Finally, I like funny words, for example “bubble”, “flap”, “belch” and “gurgling”. But I like too the word “screenwriter” , this one much more than the “copywriter”, so I decided to quit my job in an advertising agency in New York and try my luck in Hollywood, but before I jumped into deep water, I went to Europe for a year to study, fool around and think about it. I just came back from there and still like words. Can I exchange a few with you?

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