Event period: 13 July 2016

  Okay, I don’t know how to tell you this without sounding like I’m delusional, so I’m just going to give it to you straight and without beating around the bush: the shroud fabric is alive. Or rather, it seems to have some kind of behaviour similar to a living being.

  Do you remember what I told you about the fabric falling out of the box because of the cleaning ladies? Well, I was wrong: it was the fabric that came out. Since the box is not closed, just covered with a towel, the fabric simply slipped out and moved across the floor to a bucket of fresh mussels that I brought from the rocks on the beach to cook with. You won’t believe it, but it slipped into one of the empty shells and there it stayed.

  And how did I discover the pie, you may ask? Well, when I was opening the mussels to cook them, I found the fabric lying there, all innocent, as if it had always been there. I got quite a shock and for a moment I thought I was hallucinating, I mean, how many times have you gone to open a mussel and come across the fabric that you have recovered from the shroud of a mummy from I don’t know how many thousands of years ago? I would say never.

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  Once again I had to put on my gloves to avoid damaging it and take it back to its place... And there was no way. The damned fabric was sticking to the shell as if it were really a mussel. Since I didn’t want to rip it off and risk breaking it, I opted for the simplest option: I left the fabric inside the shell and put it back in the trapper.

  In these circumstances, the question that arose for me was how and why the fabric ended up in one mussel. Not to mention the mystery of how on earth a fabric that was apparently so many years old had moved and behaved like some kind of animal I had never seen before in my life.

  After much thought and no conclusion, I decided to change the fabric to a different lid-covered container. I still was not really sure if it had actually moved on its own, but just in case, I cut some holes in the lid so that it could... breathe? I don’t know if it really needs to, but, at this point, I don’t want to kill that weird thing unintentionally... If it’s really alive.