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Mustafá Mandalay de Sierra Leona vive con su esposa y sus siete hijos en un campo para inválidos cerca de Freetown. Los rebeldes entraron a su pueblo y a machetazos mutilaron a varios hombres, cinco murieron desangrados. "El presidente Kabbah os dará manos nuevas", dijeron los sublevados, antes de retirarse.
A cambio de su mano, Mustafá recibió una prótesis en forma de cuchara.

El gran escultor griego Fidias, cuenta Quignard que relatan las crónicas antiguas, fue prestado
por los atenienses a los eleos para esculpir un Júpiter olímpico. Los eleos le acusaron de haber robado oro del templo para recubrir la estatua: un sacrilegio. Le cortaron las manos y las devolvieron a Atenas en una bella caja, incrustada de oro y piedras preciosas.
Fidias, aún sin manos, fue el más grande escultor griego.

"Quisiera desprenderme de mis manos, dice Mishima,
antes de suicidarse, abolir por completo el tacto".

Margo Glantz.

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