Ecco qua.
Ancora davanti alla tastiera, con la testa tuttora leggera dopo giorni di febbre e digiuno.
Un intervallo di intensa stanchezza, di crescente preoccupazione al continuo peggiorare del tasso di piastrine, che è la conseguenza più evidente della dengue, o febbre emorragica.
Ti guardi dentro e non find an ounce of strength to do anything. Strange illness, you dry up and leave you in pieces, but you are basically "good." No pain, except for the backache, no visible sign. Only a small voice. And one stumbled, dragged and leaning on the pedestal of gravity, which serves as a dry support. To wander the corridors of the hospital these figures is uncertain, all with the same stem casters, hanging with the same bag of electrolytes with the same pale faces and sunken eyes. Many come together under one roof to smoke, hoping to exorcise the disease and do worse.
And long, long time to think, lining up thoughts and feelings. But then escape to the memory and leave no trace.
How many times have I read of hemorrhagic fevers that have broken the colonial ambitions of thousands of Europeans, swarmed over the centuries in Asia. How many explorers, biologists, botanists or just adventurers in search of their Holy Grail, flared before and swept away in the prime of life, just started their journey from the mysteries of the dense equatorial forests. How soon hopes unfulfilled, so many discoveries to miss delirious fevers and Bonecrusher.
I remember the exhaustion of high fever, nausea and asthenia. The dreams after dark restless sleep, they left behind them pensieri bui, spiacevoli. Dicono che lasci anche un po’ di depressione.
Poco di eroico e mitico, molto di prosaica contaminazione ambientale dovuta all’incuria che la massificazione dei flussi turistici porta con sé. Non c’è tracia di un programma di eradicazione della malattia, attraverso pratiche di prosciugamento di aree acquitrinose o di spargimento di insetticida o di lotta integrata alla zanzara tigre.
Tra i vari sconquassi che il turismo causa a Bali, quello sanitario sta emergendo senza che gli amministratori studino contromisure efficaci. I casi di dengue sono raddoppiati dall’anno scorso, la malaria riprende strength, the anger is still claiming human victims, Legionella has made its appearance in crowded places such as hotels and shopping centers.
The gods are powerless and will become the end of their fellow Olympians, without influence or power over human affairs, gradually disappear in the clouds and never come to embody the body of the young girls in ceremonies of collective trance.
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