14 DAY TRIAL // What a sunny day?Well, it's July, it's normal. I think it's also warm. I'd go for a swim. But I'm kinda embarrassed, at my age, to walk around in my underwear on the beach. And I don't know where to find a spot with less people. The thing is that now, in the summer, it's crowded. The sea is really beautiful here, apparently more beautiful than anywhere else. What a stupid idea, I suppose the sea is almost the same everywhere. I probably like it more here because I live here, and I like the way the city stretches out of the sea with its mountains. Sometimes I stay for hours in the sea and stare at the city and think- isn't really Sagrada too huge? I mean I don't want people to say: "Gaudi made a few nice houses and all, but he went mad when he was old and dumped this enormous church, ruining everything?" But I don't think I'll live to finish it, and I hope the ones that will (finish it) would change the plans to match the new city.
I think I'll go anywhere on the beach, I'll take my clothes off fast and run in the water, and that will be it, there won't be any time for people to see me naked. Oh,?last night I had this weird dream. I was on the roof of la Pedrera and somebody came and said he particularly liked these chimneys in the shape of soldiers. I was really angry, "they're not soldiers, I kept saying, I made them spirits or phantoms, not soldiers." I kept asking them to say something, like they had done so many times before, to convince him they weren't soldiers, but they stood still and silent like graves. "Hey, I yelled at them, that's the reward I get for letting you free, building you in these round, wavy shapes? I'll make you rigid, square and stiff and stick you deep in the ground, let's see what you'll say then!" After a while, the guy that had asked me had disappeared and they started chatting, but I have no idea what they were saying, I was kinda upset.
I don't know what to wear, it's warm, I only have these shabby clothes, but they are comfortable, I'm going to the beach, it shouldn't matter that much.
I was right, it's very warm, and what a fantastic light! I'd stop a little on Passeig de Gracia, to see the houses. I have to see once again the chimneys on La Pedrera, how they look, what they say. I don't understand how I manage to get lost on these streets all the time, 'cause the city is especially built with parallel and perpendicular streets for confused people like me. I think it's because I keep looking at houses, palm trees, and think about all kinds of things, if I were very attentive I wouldn't get lost like that. Well, but it's summer and I'm not in the mood to pay attention, better get a little lost, I'll find the way eventually?you can see Sagrada, yep , they'll say I made it that big on purpose, not to get lost anymore. I think I have walked on this street a hundred times and have never known it's called Carrer de Bail?n, I think it goes to Gran Via, and from there it's close?Oh, here's Gran Via?In Battlo the blue light should be great at this time of the day. They were teasing me yesterday when I was talking about going to the beach and all, telling me I made Battlo like a sea space, like my own personal sea, because I don't have the guts to go to the sea anymore, and then I stole a piece of it. Oh, again and again I don't see the tram ?
"289, 10 minutes 289, the intersection of Gran Via with Bail?n, Miss Angelica is waiting for you 289"?"Yes, lady, thank you, if it wasn't that crowded, I'd get there faster. Why are you going ahead you moron, f__king idiot!"?"Hey, watch your language, all right?" "Hey, sorry, I didn't know this thing was still open, what can we do, lady, we're going crazy in this traffic." "Hey, we're crowded like hell, too, but we don't talk like that to the clients." "I don't talk like this to the clients, I was talking to this f__ck that got ahead of me, the a__hole, excuse my French lady." "Hey, just calm down, Mrs. Angelica is waiting for you, have a good day!" "You, too, lady!"?"Taxi Caballo, hello, wait Miss., don't yell like this, it's coming, I told you, it's crowded,?what a bitch!".
"What's going on here, mate? I had to pick somebody up and I can't pass, was it an accident?" "Yes mate, a tram hit an old fart. Somebody said let's take him to the hospital." "I can't, I have to work, and it's hard with this sh__ty traffic, if I go home penniless my wife will kill me, she needs the dough to buy stuff for the kid" "He looks like a freaking bum anyway, I'm not taking a bum to the hospital, now, that I have so much work to do." "Then you'll just leave him here?" "Some ambulance has to come, it's their business, right? Or is it our business? No way. I say we, taxi drivers have enough on our minds, I was thinking about dropping out of business, it sucks, people don't have money to tip, and with all this traffic and all the morons that have cool cars and don't know to drive them? it drives you crazy". "Yeah mate, you're right, all the rich guys driving cool cars, I haven't seen one to drive them well, f__king morons, they think if they got cool cars they can do anything!" "Yeah, so now what, I'm not a sucker to drive bums to hospital, not my problem" "Yeah, what time are you getting out of shift?" "A couple of hours" "Let's meet up at Zdrerillos to get a bite and a beer" "It's a deal, mate"
Note: On the 7th of July 1926, Gaudi was hit by a tram at the intersection of Carrer de Bail?n and Gran V?a. The taxi drivers refused to take a poor bum to the hospital ( the police fined them later for refusing to help a wounded person). In his old age, Gaudi was a modest person, he also dressed in a careless manner, that's probably why in the day of his accident, nobody recognized him.
