Stories of Paraná - The flutter

Stories of Paraná - The flutter

The flutter
Mauro Goulart

"Uncle" was one of the guards of the prison Provisional Ahu, in Curitiba.
Of uncertain age, but you could say "there by sixties", made his evening hours.
Always slippers, whose noise the drag when I was allowed to identify, in the distance, when he came through the halls of the prison.
Cap fell over his eyes and covering a bald not complete due to a thin fuzz color unidentified present in temples and occipital.
Same fate had not gums, they have totally abandoned by the teeth and denture usually unmanned.
Sloppy, "Uncle" carried the denture, worn, dirty or missing teeth, in his shirt pocket.
When would nibble on something, he drew the exotic instrument, like a pair of glasses throwing it into the mouth where it will fit with amazing rapidity.
Whenever we would start a conversation took a rap on the brim of his cap throwing him back, cleared his throat, and an eternal matchstick, which ran from corner to corner of his lips, acquired dizzying speed.
Sympathetic figure, there were some awkward mannerisms and certain opinions nothing exciting. 15 were arrested initially in that cell, and one of his "philosophical assumptions" favorite was: "If Jesus Christ, in the middle of the 12 apostles, was a traitor, imagine you here in fifteen?" Decidedly, who was arrested for political reasons in full AI-5, being visited regularly by the various organs of repression, these words could not be identified as those "to boost morale."
The "Uncle" painting and embroidering.
Waved advantages, since "some", "not as corruption but as a contribution to pay for the bus and other minor expenses" fell in your pocket.
Time and again we had a list of "voluntary contributions", also made by "voluntary initiative", the prisoners of a certain gallery, as the collection of some cruises to help you fulfill your honorary mister.
On one occasion, the Ahu dawned abuzz.
A great banker animal game had been arrested.
As said Tatarovich, Yugoslav smuggler: "Fish of the great fallen in the network."
But these innovations were soon assimilated, and the banker no longer notorious figure in a short time.
Pretty soon, I was talking to us, although he had been warned by the entire jail that "one group of students was hard core communist."
Man of easy conversation as soon befriended.
Even, occasionally, would throw a football hall with us, in our famous 1 ½ hours of sunshine a day we had.
Before long, we had our adventures (or misadventures, whatever). Although a man of easy conversation, was extremely jealous of their business, usually avoided comment on their activities.
But, one day, a wheel-chimar Rao, after the late Sergeant Alberi, who had participated in the episode known as the "Guerrilla Colonel Cardin" said the torture he had suffered, our - already
- Banker friend of the numbers game blurted, "Hey guys, have been arrested for being banker bug is fire.
But the same fire was on the second day I was stuck in my cell, when one enters jailer old man, totally toothless, walking dragging the flip-flops, giving a fillip in flap cap playing it back, and with a small pad of paper in hand, talking all friendly: - "Good evening, folks.
Who wants to make a leap of faith? "
Mauro Goulart, MD, a former student leader, was a political prisoner.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.