NO TE DUERMAS, the judge said. How long will it take? Hasta siete horas. So he went back to bed.
He started to see images of a kind of pillar of purple light, flashing in a void delimited by a rectangular prism, an infinitude of time with limits—in other words, an eternity, strobing, from one eternity to the next… He knew he must be falling asleep, so he woke himself up. It had only been one hour so far.