How Fred Perry closed the only portal to infinity behind him
He took the escalator up to the second floor, then turned right toward the bookstore.
After rummaging through the various aisles, looking up and down, opening and peeking at a few books from time to time, he hurried out of the place, much to the relief of the vendor who had silently followed him and collected and replaced his discarded books. books.
Then, he took the escalator to the third floor, entered the theater, looked at the billboard, picked one at random, and bought a ticket. The film did not interest him much, so he switched between several films that were showing that day in the various theaters. Finally, he left.
Still on the third floor, she thought she might find him at the store that sold scented oils and soaps, but despite smelling a few sample bottles and annoying the entire team that was working that morning’s shift with his frantic behavior and his dumb questions, didn’t find it there.
Descending the escalator, he walked downstairs, anxiously glancing in window after window, but somehow no one seemed to be selling him.
“What are you looking for, young man?” asked a friendly stranger, incongruously dressed in the robes of a monk, a piece of coarse dark brown cloth that reached from his neck to his ankles.
“The answers!”
“Well, you will not find it here, in this pavilion, it is only for those who seek temporary and perishable goods. Come with me.”
After taking the young man’s hand, the monk led him to a shop selling candles and incense sticks and as soon as they opened the curtain behind the counter that led to one of the back rooms, they entered a wormhole in time- space.
Transported to a desolate desert landscape, red, sandy and with a hot, dry wind ruffling their hair, the monk showed him the mouth of a dark cave and urged him to follow him inside.
Miles later, after crawling on their hands and knees for the most part, they saw an illumination. Initially, it was a dim glow, but the closer they got, the more the light managed to curl around the corners and shine on them.
When they reached the great cavern, it appeared so suddenly that they almost fell out of the tunnel into it.
The rocks throughout the cavern reflected a pale blue hue that both calmed and excited them. The light came from deep within the placid pool in the middle of the magnificent chamber.
“There you will find the answer,” said the monk, pointing.
Walking towards the pool, the young man looked at it and, because it was so clear, he saw that it had infinite depth. He also immediately sensed that the answer to all his problems was reflected in him. Seeing her own face and the lines of the years etched into it, he saw the image of her smile back at him.
“How can this be?” she asked, puzzled. “It seems that I AM THAT I AM”.
“Yes, it’s strange but true,” said the monk, “YOU are the answer!”
But before the young man could object, the alarm clock rang.
Fred Perry realized he was running late, jumped out of his sleep and out of his bed, dressed in the clothes he had thrown at the foot of the bed the night before, and without even brushing his hair or teeth, ran out of the room. bed. gate.
At the factory, as soon as he punched the clock, he breathed a sigh of relief, unaware for a moment for the rest of the day as he stood by the conveyor belt and put caps on the bottles that passed in front of him. that he had closed the infinity portal behind him.