The Purloined Letter
After losing a lot of things, find them here or there, one could be instructed not random but very often something that can happen: the thing is lost under our noses. So if I lose something, a book in the chaotic library, the first thing I do is stand in front of the bookstore and see what lies in front me. And there is.
Where does this attitude? In a story that Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the detective story, wrote in 1848 titled "The Purloined Letter" and has passed into history as an apologist to understand the curious idea that the best way to hide a thing putting it in front of everyone. I for one think that this story also shows us that we often have things under our noses and we do not.
What famous murder this circumstance that in the light of day, at six in the afternoon, in front of a crowd that comes and goes Insurgentes Avenue, before dozens of witnesses, a gunman shot him lace his victim? This was not the only mystery that emanated from the death of Manuel Buendia in 1984 per another one of his most subtle. Why had to be done and when they could have completed in the darkness and into the open? Or venadeado? Mystery. Poe
fussy delayed talks on the police office, ie the art of looking for things in a house and set that technically is recognized as the "area search" check boxes, examine the top of the table below verify whether a leg of it is perforated or not. The agent proceeds by elimination, but only if someone has decided to hide something.
In the story that concerns us is the wisdom of the character who decides not to hide it but leave it there on the coffee table in front of the passing everyone. However, Auguste Dupin, the friend who tells the story of Poe, by convention, if you see the cunning of another, discovers that the hiding and suddenly, just by having folds and wrinkles too feigned, stabs him above the eye table. And in a careless decision, replacing it with a facsimile. He finds it, not the police.
That's the story that was, moreover, the subject of many studies the order of psychoanalytic thinking. Among the disciples of Dr. Jacques Lacan says that for any whom the letter is the unconscious. "The bottom line human drama, and in particular of all theatrical drama, is that there are links, knots, a covenant," says Lacan.
The Purloined Letter then becomes a trump card and the police did not find it because they do not know what a letter. And I do not know why they are cops, "All legitimate power, like any power, is based on the symbol."
What happens, says Lacan, is that only in the dimension of truth may be something hidden. "In reality, the idea of \u200b\u200ba cache is Delusional: as far as anyone has been to bring something to the bowels of the earth, that something or is hidden, because if that someone came up to you to get you there too. You can only hide that which belongs to the order of truth. It is the truth that is hidden, not the letter. For the police the truth does not matter, for them there is only reality, and therefore do not see anything. "Auguste Dupin gives
If the letter is that he has thought a bit about the symbol and truth. The police generally do not have that sensibility, do not capture the subtleties of human behavior. Sometimes a suicide letter is false not because of what he says but by what is not says. Or for the discrepancy between his style and the deceased, who would not express it that way. But police did not have to know matters of style.
Many times we have things in front of our noses and we do not. Examples: Falcon 1971. Clearly, all are cut from the same cloth. Everyone has a mass age, 23 years or less and measure the same thing. There are fat or thin. They wear the same clothing. If someone had recruited from the lumpen youth it is natural that there would come up with very different physical types, with different weights and measures. We did not see, then, something that is there in all the photographs: the rappers straight out of training regiment. Other evidence
invisible: Carlos Ahumada suitcases full of millions of dollars. Where them out? She sent an aide to buy twenties and fifties to the gearboxes of the Zona Rosa? Why did not Mexican pesos? Only the candor and innocence of General Macedo de la Concha, Attorney few years ago and now a diplomat in Italy, prevented in those suitcases saw the unmistakable stamp of its origin. Another obvious
invisible, but what happens before our eyes all the days: the insane, stupid war in Iraq. There was in their territory as nuclear or chemical weapons. There were not or will find. They had not attacked the United States Iraqis. But the invasion was made by the Americans and British, who have only the dead on their side (a little more and 2 000 marines, say) and are not counting more than 100 000 civilians dead, regardless of mutilated survivors forever.
The most effective, therefore, is to commit the crimes before the whole world. All
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