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Paco is a man of short stature and sparse word.
\nPaco is a loyal friend, shy, generous and humble.
\nPaco works silently in the heart of a bustling and shooter of firecrackers Valencia.
\nBut what does he do? Ah! That is what is unique about Paco!
\nPaco is a tamer of lines.
\nThat work requires lots of patience and lots of concentration. Sometimes lots of time, too much\u2026
\nThat\u2019s because lines are hard to tame, they are harder to domesticate and even harder to catch on the flight.
\nLike a safari hunter does, Paco awaits a line to jump in the middle of the trap of the blank page. But not any line. It must be a wild line, with the claw of a tiger and the heart of a lion. He does not care about the wishy-washy type lines. He doesn’t even look at them when flitting around.
\nAfter a time, usually long, and after a wait that can be maddening, bang! A savage and bestial line falls on the page. It has to be caught on the fly, it has to be cornered at an angle and it has to be shown just with one\u2019s gaze that it has no escape. Line shakes, bristles, rears up, tenses, and it is then, just then, when the tamer of lines waves his pen whip and tame it, showing the exact, precise, location, that the beast has to occupy in the composition.
\nAnd back on waiting.
\nAnother line jumps, tenses, and bang! It stays there, nailed, expectant, at tamer orders, who with himself and with all the lines leading cornered, can ride a circus where to display a mulatto girls with outright buttocks as moons, horses with unruly mane, girls showing their belly buttons, warriors from other epic, labyrinthine cities, daunted monsters, fireworks\u2026
\nImpossible not to clap to his show.
\nImpossible not to claim for more, not to require an encore.
\nHe has performed his work so cleanly, with such neatness in the scenography and in the attrezzo, the lighting has been so precise, the choreography has been so accurate the viewer remains stunned by such spectacle.
\nCertainly is not of those that are seen every day.
\nEven the beasts of his lines seem to be happy with their new state. By being tamed, they have lost their freedom, but not their poise, their wildness, their arrogance. The best thing is that, by taming them, Paco\u2019s circus has not ridiculed them.
\nBecause Paco is generous with them, he\u2019s kind, he does not require from them more than they can give in an extreme situation.
\nAnd they know it. They tense and they bow; they rear up; they resist the restraint imposed on them, but suffer it reluctantly. They jump, they even seem to float in the air, and then, bang! Again the crack of the whip, once again the cage of the scanner, the brushing of colour, the prison of the book, the tedious waiting looking for the reader\u2026
\nPaco is used to expect.
\nIf you are not, please come and see.<\/p>\n
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By Teresa Duran (From the book of the same title. Perif\u00e8ric editions, 2008) Paco is a man of short stature and sparse word. Paco is a loyal friend, shy, generous and humble. Paco works silently in the heart of a bustling and shooter of firecrackers Valencia. But what does he do? Ah! That is what…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-211","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n