21.Robert fell asleep with his clothes still on. With his buttocks up, a cheek leaning on the sheets and with a childish expression on his face. A little saliva came out of his mouth.
The noise of the town outside his windows was becoming insistent, but he wouldn't stop snoring.
He had been sleeping well for only three or four scarce hours. Sleep was almost certainly dreamless.
The ringing of his cell phone, which he didn't turn off the night before, rang insistently to wake him.
The first call failed to wake him up. The second succeeded.
He heard the distant ringtone as if it were a lost siren in some inaccessible street of the town, which could not interest him. So the sound of the phone began, in his head, to increase in volume, and to get closer, and then to move away, like an unp
