The figure of Pamela, the friend character, two lines that open an immense door

The figure of Pamela, the friend character, occupies very few lines in the tale: a voice arriving from far away that fills the room. They live in two distant cities and their relationship is kept alive on the telephone.

She is a woman who cannot contain her own exuberance even at a funeral, and alongside that exuberance she holds a rare quality: «very few words are enough for her to pinpoint reality with surgical precision».

During a phone call she defines the city where her friend lives: «a city of dead dogs». In her language the image carries a precise meaning: people who cross paths without looking at one another, who keep only the ability to exist for themselves. It is a diagnosis of community delivered in four words, on the telephone, between one laugh and the next.

From that phrase everything else follows: Pepilandia is born as the opposite setting, point by point, to the city of dead dogs. The friend character occupies two lines and hands the story its founding phrase.