Seven years ago, the world became better: we arrived to
grace it with our presence. Well, the world was a bit more graced by my
presence than by the presence of my brother, Tallinn. We have grown in
perfection, because perfection has grades and we have them all (this is more
true in my case, Princess Repu). Our rule in the Torony is an endless success, and
a proof of our generosity towards its inhabitants (especially in my case, since
I am more generous than my brother). Although recently we are very busy
stepping over very minuscule annoying entities that are running around the
kingdom chanting “corona”, “corona”. Do they know that only me, Princess Repu,
has the right to wear a crown? Well, are they duly and daily punished. It is
difficult with all this work to reflect on our recently achieved maturity. In
the meantime, Tallinn is groaning.
Sunday, 19 April 2020
Friday, 19 April 2019
Repu and Tallinn are 6 years old
Today we are 6 years old. It was a year ago that we were a
year younger and being a year older does not feel we have improved. Our living
standards have stagnated, we don´t feel our voice heard in the Torony. We feel
that we would live better if we could be independent. Cicéxit. Cicéxit should
be carried without much disruption. We, Repu, we can still be the princess of
the Torony and Cicanéni can still retain the privilege of feeding us. But we
will regain control of our life. Cicabácsi can still be Cicabácsi, we think he
is unredeemable. We will grant Cicabácsi and Cicanéni the leave to remain in
the Torony. We, Repu, we have been suffering Tallinn´s harassment (Me too, Me
too!), but Cicéxit will make him a better cica.
Tallinn´s is sleeping, asks for
treats and thinks that life as a cica in the Torony is boring but not too bad.
He yawns.
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Thursday, 8 September 2016
Tuesday, 19 April 2016
Existenchatlisme
“Moi? Je suis un existenchatliste” replies
Tallinn when Cicabácsi asks him why he is scratching the carpet. It is true that it would be difficult to
gather from that concise “meh!” of Tallinn such a serious statement, but that
is Cicabácsi´s fault and not Tallinn´s. That is why he continues to scratch,
bored, bored of repetitive life with no apparent purpose. Cicabácsi has come up
with the strange idea that Tallinn is depressed. Certainly not. Tallinn then
retires to its thinking chair, although he never thinks sitting on it, but
under it, in the Salon of Szaloncicaország. There, alone, he meditates. There he
was, yesterday night, right after midnight, reflecting on that on the arrival
of the new morning he will be three years old, and so will be her sister,
República. 3 years now. And what is that he does?, thinks Tallinn. Chasing her
sister up and down the stairs, not seeking pleasure but urged by a dark force
inside him, irrational, irresistible, unavoidable, like a feline Sisyphus. Her
sister, up there on the tree she must be, sleeping, possibly dreaming about escaping
again to the roof of the Ország, trying to reach the Torony. Liberty? She may
be dreaming of it. She has read too much Friedrich Nietzscica, she may think
she is beyond good and kutyák. Is liberty an option? Are we free? Tallinn is
getting sleepy; his kicsi mind is getting tired of thinking too much. He may
have acquired too much cica consciousness, he may have lost the spontaneity of
a kitten, or just feeling anxious about this new phase of his life: adulthood. He starts dreaming. In his dreams his
existenchatlisme receeds, vanishes. His unconscious remembers too, dreams of these
three years with Cicanéni and Cicabácsi in Szaloncicaország. They haven´t had
such a terrible life! Yes, true, they have been abandoned in the Hotel every Christmas
and every summer, but it was for a few weeks, and Cicanéni and Cicabácsi always
returned after holidays and caressed them, and kiss them. They were not
abandoned. We eat and we play, we ronron, and we roll on the carpet, belly up.
After all, isn´t this the proof that we must feel well here in this Ország? Cicabácsi
shouts everytime Repu tries to continue her sculpting career transforming the
sofa into an imitation of an Alberto Giacometti sculpture, it is true. And
Cicanéni complains when I wake her up at 5am demanding some food and some love.
But don´t we get that food and love? Don´t we manage to scratch again every day?
Tallinn smiles in his dream, groans a bit, opens one eye, thinks of convincing
República to at least say sorry to Sofa Úr next time. He thinks that tomorrow, if
Cicabácsi and Cicanéni give them their treats for their birthday he will say “meh!”
Cicabácsi and Cicanéni will not understand it, as usual, but he would have
thanked them.
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