Presenting The potential depths of Mauricio Murillo, held at the Cinematheque, Wilmer Urrelo read this smart, hilarious text before astonished eyes, whispered comments and laughter accomplices. We share it with you to have fun like us that memorable night. 
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Page 7by Wilmer Urrelo
I will start this presentation with a personal anecdote, or rather, with a very personal story. It turns out that a few years ago I saw a documentary that dealt with testicular cancer. It was horrendous. Images I'd rather not remember and it's best not describe. And since that day, the speaker has an obsession over: cancer in the balls. So overcoming the shyness and modesty typical of La Paz and men with a sensitive issue (let's face it: our balls, not cancer) is that quite often I go to a specialist to give me bad or good news. While before there is a prior review of me always I hope at the door of the office and when I'm with my pants at the knees and my doctor plays (so to speak) with my eggs to see if there is or not some "strange bump," as doctors like to refer to tumors, I have the feeling of walking around the pit.
A similar picture (it is also to say) I thought when I read The potential depths. In this novel there is an obsession, which is seen through the protagonist, Tariq Usuriaga. Yes, an obsession and, furthermore, should be added, a fear. Tariq live in a city. And that obsession is the sea, or rather: the bottom of the sea and all that comes with it. Maps. People drowned. Vessels. Captains. Tariq writes somewhere in the novel and I quote: "I'm obsessed with these maps lost. All around them, and the maps themselves ... ". This wonderful book is like a mirror to aim a flashlight: the reflection is not produced in one direction, but several scattered. Similarly novel about Mauritius: the sea and its consequences are boundless, are enormous, as when I think about what would happen (touch wood) if a day is the mind "bump": the moral, physical, and even literary that might entail. But anyway, the thing is that Tariq decides to do something with this obsession, he decides to go for As it happens with Moby Dick Ishmael that call is much stronger than anything else. " In the sea, deep in the abyss of darkness. There was something calling him. At first the darkness was isolated and surreptitious, then began to quicken and increased its presence. " As well, their presence almost forces the protagonist to go to sea and begin arriving this act the stories that always occur in travel: a mysterious and frightening captain, perennial shade Juan de la Cosa, Natalie Wood and water and even terror Alf, yes, that alien we saw on TV in the past decade, is part of this strange tissue.
At this time, to get to this point I was reading the following questions: Is this the bottom of the sea?, "The sea floor are actually fears and stories that Tariq is to Throughout its course? I think so, because finally after all the author seems everything is at sea or across the world of the novel is explained through it. The entrance to the city, modernity, cinema, epidemics, pirate invasions, literature, poetry, meeting with a writer of this book and even his own death to lead us ineluctably to the bottom of the sea .
the sea If so, then you have to see or at least retain its image, but doing so is like the fear of the disease, will be for your character as if the happy "bump" will seize it. I quote: "Tariq walked adrift. I did not know what to do. I felt this darkness that pierced the neck, following him, the sea watching him, so moist sewage without success ".
Obsessions, and therefore fear, are dangerous until they become real until you touch in some way, until you see the famous "bump" in one of your balls, how they believe that the Tariq pay? That is another story, this is the historia y que no voy a contarles porque tienen que leerla. Lo único que puedo decirles por el momento es que las obsesiones, amigas y amigos, suelen pagarse tarde o temprano.
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