Mafalda, the surprise that arrived in a scrambled river

The bedroom has a wooden floor and a window that cannot be opened because fox tails form a wall. Two twin beds with pictures.

On the light table a radio with a luminous dial and a rotating needle where at night she listens to the radio programs El Mundo. Above there is a shelf with the twelve volumes of the encyclopedia I know everything, the manual of the Kapeluz student and the game the job. You have to be careful not to lose the tickets that are distributed at the beginning because the one that has the most silver wins: the game consists of buying land. The mother complains because she spreads rectangular, celestial and roses wallets with inscriptions of one hundred, two hundred, five hundred and one thousand pesos for all the rooms of the house. But what she wants most is to read to Mafalda, the cousin has the complete collection in the house. Every time he asks for her, she tells her to lend her to another girl or that she wants to see her again. The character created by Quino originated when an advertising agency hired him to draw a comic destined for an appliance brand: the company put as a condition that in the drawings appear blenders, washing machine and that the names began with M. The character was so successful that Humberto Eco said that with that comic Argentina could be understood. In principle the protagonist and her parents appeared. Then Quino added other characters such as Felipe, Manolito, Susanita, Miguelito, Libertad and his little brother Guille. She thinks of her favorite character when, one day of storm the father travels to Santa Fe. Wait a surprise, who bought a mafalda, but he always returns with the radiolandia. She leaves the bathroom. Pisa cold tiles. Shit when crossing the gallery. While waiting for dinner reads in Billiken the adventures of Pelopincho and Cachirula. Repeat the maxims printed above the pages: “Do not envy anyone.” “Being a punctual child is very beautiful.” “The hand that the crib is the hand that governs the world.” The mother serves milanesas with puree. She looks through the window. Outside, the storm is stronger. The mother is worried, enters the kitchen and fills a turkey with water. She looks out at the door to the bottom and sees the starless figs on the floor. At one in the morning the eyes close. The mother goes to sleep. She is still waiting. He does not realize what time the father arrives. She heats the food. The father says that despite the rain, he preferred to return home. He says that the river was so scrambled that at one time it seemed that the boat was going to go around a bell. “I forgot your gift,” he says. Take out a Mafalda copy. She caresses the lid, passes the leaves carefully. As Clarice Lispector writes in clandestine happiness: she is no longer a girl, she is a woman with her lover

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