Chapter
27
Edited by Higashi
WHEN
JULIÁN TURNED TWELVE YEARS old and the nightmare of his
middle
school years was raging at its fullest, the boy had
found a battered copy of The
Adventures of Nils Holgersson.
He began then
to dream of running away from his home and seeing all the north of
Europe on the back of a goose—to see everything from the skies,
like the birds did.
The
years passed—ran over him—and he forgot his dream, but never his
desire of being free and becoming somebody else. Looking back, he had
never aspired to be anything more than a clerk at a bank, perhaps an
assistant at a law firm or a salesman in a department store. He had
wanted to earn a nice salary, have a clean flat of his own and a
boyfriend who didn't hit him or cheat on him.
Nothing
else.
