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The Room - La estancia

The room The little-lit room had become his only room. A vital room, sometimes sweet, sometimes hostile, but always surprising. There he was living the most unlikely adventures from the moment that his brain refused to obey him. Sometimes, the pale blue of its walls was the sky of an aviator in his flight through a spectacular storm. Other times it was a battlefield where he faced the armies of Genghis Khan. Other times, it was the engine room of a submarine in full battle against the forces of evil. One summer morning, someone opened the window wide and the penetrating light invited him to freedom. So without thinking about it, he threw himself through that long-awaited fissure into the future. What was surprising was that the psychiatric hospital nurses could see him floating, going out through the window, defying the laws of gravity, and heading for infinity, out of reach of everything and everyone. La estancia La estancia, poco iluminada, se había convertido en su ...