Every day, except at night, she will be there. She keeps a promise to take care of the marble columns. She says that the quarry from which the capricious stone was extracted is in the domain of her very old family. The gray veins tell stories, she says. And she is there to read them and pass them on from generation to generation. But the burning light of the sun is the only one that reveals the chains of events that have been engraved in every column veins. That is why she goes out every day from dawn to dusk to collect them and leave them in her worn notebook with school pencil scribbles. She says that the most exciting stories are several meters above the ground, up there in the capitals, and that she hopes to read them for everyone one day. She still collects words from the first column. Who knows what those stories are about. I stayed for a moment listening to her after taking the photos, but I forgot the details as soon as I went down the steps back to my car.
Todos los días, excepto por las noches, ahí estará. Cumple una promesa de cuidar el mármol del lugar. Dice que la cantera de donde extrajeron la caprichosa piedra está en los dominios de su antiquísima familia. Las vetas grises cuentan historias, dice ella. Y ella está ahí para leerlas y pasarlas de generación en generación. Pero la luz quemante del solo es la única que revela las cadenas de acontecimientos que han quedado grabadas en sus vetas. Por eso ella sale a diario desde el amanecer hasta que cae la tarde para recolectarlas y dejarlas en su raída libreta con garabatos de lápiz colegial. Dice que las historias más emocionantes están a varios metros del suelo, allá arriba en los capiteles, y que espera algún día leerlas para todos. Aún recolecta palabras de la primera columna. Quien sabe de qué tratan esas historias. Yo me quedé un momento escuchándola después de hacerle las fotos, pero olvidé los detalles en cuanto bajé la escalinata de regreso a mi auto.
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