The next night, when it was safely dark and the dead were out and about to a movie, Johnny took Stella up to the retro cinema, Cine Maldà on Carrer del Pi. He paused for a mourner’s Kaddish at the foot of the Angel’s Gate where the former Paris cinema (where he and Vivi had seen El Lobo) used to be, and which now was one more H & M fast fashion store. Johnny and Stella entered Cine Maldà with five other people, happy to catch Inland Empire, all three hours of it, with an inexplicable intermission, so it was about one forty-five in the morning when they emerged with all the spectres from their respective cine viewing, to thread the Barcelona night out to Cafè de l’Òpera on the Rambles, ease back, watch the night people ramble, the dead with the living and Johnny with sea eyes saw it all lik
