Prolepsis

"At the entrance there is a garden and there is a lake and there are a lot of ducks in the water. But the grass is made of plastic and the ducks are made of wood and the lake is artificial. My father is going to die in a place where everything seems true, but it's a lie, and I can't help but think that there is no better place than this for him to die because his life was always like this, an accumulation of facts that seemed true, but were false ". Although she never saw her father wrestle, when Mina was little she would sit next to him and watch wrestling matches on TV. The hard part was selling the blow. That's what he used to tell her. Not jump into the air or carry the weight of the rival, but the public believed that they had really hurt you. And it is that, for Augusto, the most important thing was always to try to make the farce that surrounded him believable. Augusto wanted to be world champion in wrestling, he called himself Mastodon. He might have been the best, but he ended up in jail for holding up a Banco Hispano Americano branch with a replica Smith & Wesson revolver. Mina wanted to be a writer, but now he is satisfied with teaching a handful of strangers to narrate his stories.