Interlude A

The Architect’s Fall

Santiago de Orduña

I fall

Am I Lucifer? Adam? Am I Sisyphus?

I fall and as I fall, I repeat the Universal Story of Falls

a universal love claims me

As I fall, I hold a briefcase. In it, I find a deck of cards with instructions: “The goal of this game is to return alive to the Temple of Love (you have 13 lives and 52 points). If in need, pick a card … Good luck”

I pick a card: golden wings

I suddenly have a heavy pair of wings on my back. I flap them, but to no avail.

I notice a name engraved on the briefcase:

FRANCESCO PÉREZ – DAEDALUS

I sink into the earth as if sinking into a dream

I land on a large rotunda surrounded by Corinthian columns. Near the center is a perfect hole inside which a Solomonic column rises projecting a black light into a motionless sun in the sky. Around the pit is the inscription:

COINCIDENTIA OPPOSITORUM

At a distance, in opposite directions, I perceive two truncated pyramids. One has a frontal staircase covered in blood, at its top there is a terrace with two chapels, one blue, the other red, crowned by digital boards displaying the time,