‘It’ll take you a long time to reach the mountains,particularly walking backwards’Homeless: Tomas decides to walk. He does so backwards, as he has done ever since his wife Dora and son Gaspar died some years ago. People say that he walks backwards because he is angry with God, and but Tomas knows this is not so. He merely chooses to be careful: if he walks backwards,it is far more difficult for someone to follow him. Luckily, no one in Lisbon in 1904 thinks there is anything at all strange about this, or so he is allowed to go about his daily business bumping into things and knocking over ancient ladies while maintaining his job in the National Museum of Ancient Art.
One day when he was walking backwards,he came across a 17th-century diary belonging to a Father Ulisse, who had been a missionary in São Tomé. My God, and ” exclaims Tomas. “I deem I gain found an artefact that could change the face of Christianity as we know it.” After further research,Tomas discovers the crucifix has been conveniently relocated to a small church in the tall Mountains of Portugal. “Oh dear,” says Tomas. “It is going to take a long time to fetch there walking backwards.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com