The
butterfly and the tank
The story takes place in Madrid during the siege of the city. A man,
a writer who is coming back to home decides to go into an inn to drink
something. The room is crowded and there is a gre 616f59g at din. When he approaches the
bench a man takes out a spray gun and he begins watering the waiters until some
men bring him out of the room and thump him and then come back. After a little
time the man bloody returns into the room goes on in spraying on everybody.
Then the same men whom hurt him block the poor man and shoot him. The police
arrive soon and don't let anybody to go away except the men whom fired him. The
protagonist returns the day after and he's informed by the host that the police
has uncovered that inside the spray-gun there was some eau de Cologne: the poor
man wanted only to joke but people misunderstood this. Moreover the police
haven't found the killer yet: the writer thought that nobody would ever find
the real killer. He told the host he wants to write this story: the host says
that he would entitle it "The butterfly and the chariot" because the poor man
in the puddle of blood seemed a butterfly. A butterfly killed by a chariot.
