Summer or At Badalona Beach The subject was opposite me (a "Resting Man" on a deckchair) I saw the vertical incision on his chest the red towel the now rare Delial (with a shiver from several decades’ worth of recollections) must have been in his sixties immersed in the global news page (his cellphone rang a couple of times) waved no to the black peddler who approached him. His story roused my interest (the vertical incision, mainly) and of course I enjoyed the indiscretion the idler’s fantasy, I mean, the inductive inspirations: at night (age contributes) a triviality was enough to wake him up in his lea- ther loa- fers got out of the con- jugal bed, quiet at the cor- ridor his son’s breathing sounded like an unhampered step to the future (sons are always made of future) sometimes laughter trivial dialogues with sleepless friends unfamiliar sounds from the computer. He stood still for a while with the unspoken suspension of an ani...