The Incident of the Dog wrong Don Cosme looks out the window and wait. Or wait and look out the window. It is raining outside, inside, too. Is a metaphor and not: there is a leak somewhere in the room of Don Cosme. There are leaks all over the asylum.
Don Cosme Javier will wonder when to visit. The days pass the same, always. Outside it rains or shines, but Don Cosme continues inside, because one afternoon Javier decided that there, in the asylum, would be better. Don Cosme has no illness that requires a continuity of professional care, if so, he would understand. But Don Cosme simply old age, and then not know why his son was put in that place instead of leaving it in the room of his house, which was not disturbed.
There was an incident that could explain this to Don Cosme, but that was many years ago, when Javier was a baby. Don Cosme and remember, it's likely that you remember not Javier. It turns out that Alice wanted a dog, and Don Cosme bought it. For a while, everything went well. But the dog puppy and no longer left to be funny, and began to bark and pee and poop in places where it should. And then Don Cosme said the dog had to go.
find a new home would take a long time, and Don Cosme did not want to take time. After all, he thought, it's just a dog. That night, very late, so the neighbors would not see him (there's always some nut who respects both dogs and humans), took the dog to the car (Javier want to go with him), walked four or five miles to reach a square, stepped the car, tied the dog to a tree, climbed into the car and went home. It began to rain. And Javier felt (though of course, could not explain it well), that all this ritual was something of treason. Ie: the dog had taught him that this is your house, this is your doghouse, this is your meal, and suddenly, one midnight, they left him tied to a tree in a place and go. And the dog barked, of course. And it is increasingly distant as the car moved and the dog was tied up, and Javier learned that his father had tied because, having left loose, the dog would have chased the car until you get home, because it taught him is your house, this is your doghouse, this is your meal. And one, man or dog, is what he learns and does what he teaches. And that night, Don Javier Cosme taught to leave someone when that someone, man or dog, find it annoying, is something that can be done.
- Why Grandpa no longer lives with us? Martin asked Javier.
"Because it's old, Martin.
- Why when people are old they are driving them out of the house?
Javier looked at his son, and thought. And he remembered something he thought he had forgotten.
-Ponete the jacket. Let's find the grandfather.
