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How To Write A Brief Summary Of Horace's Departure?

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Horace gets up from the bed, leaving Jessica lazy who stares at the ceiling, and walks into the living room with a delirious in the hands. In a corner of the room the statue to the Unknown Policeman is covered with a cloth. He will destroy it, decided. He removes the cloth, takes a hammer and starts to hit. But it's not easy. The arm becomes lead while an underground river of moods and recent memories flows to the edge of the skin. He lowers the arm, inhales and focuses squeezing between thumb and forefinger the top of the nose. Then he tries again, but his arm seems that of a puppet, with limited movements when approaching the marble. It hurts, he can't see the destruction. The only way is to cover the statue with cloth, and to reach the necessary detachment he imagines it as a damn figurative. Now finally he finds the strength to hit. He does …show more content…

Unfortunately, the height of the nemesis, the fruit of his casual strokes looks surprisingly similar to the discus thrower of Myron. “No, it’s not possible!”, he barks like an amateur werewolf. He covers the statue and, irritated, he comes back to hammer with more anger, until he hears the palm of his hand that beats. When he uncovers it, and Michelangelo’s statue of David appears. Sic! He realizes that the stochastic, statistics, the chaos and the expansion of the universe are just bullshit. Everything is equally likely: both destroy and create. He would be tempted to use the dynamite, but certainly the house rules will ban it. Therefore he holds back the statue and takes to hit with the utmost violence gripping the hammer with both hands. Under the sheet he sees the mineral decreasing in height and width, so this time he doesn't expects surprises, unless he finds garden gnomes. When exhausted he lifts the shroud and finally sees the rubble. Now he's satisfied, tired and depressed together. Orazio enters the bedroom, Jessica is still lying on the

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