HEADING NORTH

If, on our way, we want to spend the night in an abandoned house, we should be wary! Because even in our sleep, we will be forced out of curiosity to visit it, and then chances are we will come across a man in black lurking in the attic. Let us be wary, for most of the abandoned houses we find on the wayside are actually going to be family homes that we have tried to forget. The man in black will always contrive to take us to a small bedroom and play to us the part of some ancestor standing there dead with his eyes wide open. We should watch out, for if ever we go up to him to embrace him, we will wake up with a start, with our lips on the bedroom mirror. It will be so cold that our lips will be glued to the mirror; we shall have just enough freedom of movement to raise our eyes slightly to see the reflection of the road stretching into the distance behind our back.