There are people who are made to believe that their identity is on their faces and go out on the street without an identity. In addition to my DNI, I usually carry my driver’s license, passport, Social Security card, public library card, and receipt. Everything for me, to show that it’s me if necessary. This means that deep down I don’t believe I am Juan José Millás, but he wouldn’t have believed I was José Pérez if he had called me that. But because they forced us to be anyone, I say that I am Juan José Millás, son of Vicente and Cándida, born January 31, 1946 in Valencia. I don’t believe any of this but it works for administrative purposes. So a cop stops you on the street.
He says “documentation” because he doesn’t believe I am either Juan José Millás or José Pérez.
And that no one has written on their face. You must prove this with a document that is also a fake document. All that is published by the State is false, and not because they were published by the State, but because it is not an essentially correct document. We agreed that what’s wrong is right and that’s it. This is called consensus. There is nothing more wrong than a 50 euro bill, and it is wrong because it has no basis other than belief. We believe in him as others believe in God, period. But if you spend a lifetime with a bunch of 50-euro bills, even your ID, passport and family wallet, you have everything left because pasta is the thing that provides the most identity in this world.
The identity it has is that it takes up a lot of space. I usually carry all documents, including my credit card, in a wallet that I keep in the inside pocket of my jacket, where it grows like a tumor. A benign tumor, okay, but still a nuisance. If you look closely, the powerful people who appear on television don’t have that bulge because there is a direct correlation between identity and wealth. The more millions, the more identities. In the USA, when the police kill a Negro, the police are said to have killed a Negro, while if they kill a rich white (rare, very rare) they are said to have killed the So-and-so. The interesting thing is that there is no DNI with that name as far as is known. Not with him, not with Fulana de Cual. mysteries.