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Otters. Yes, otters. He was an otters' breeder. Bizarre hobby. The man was really attached to the se strange animals. In a not so beautiful day, one of the otters started to talk. It spoke incoherent stuffs. Nothing, absolutely nothing was making sense. The man was able to identify just some flying words. "Warning", "interests" and "omit" were the easiest to be identified by the otters' breeder. And it was very excited. So excited. It was screaming and grappling on the well where it was in. Suddenly, it gave a great jump, escaped of the captivity and began to hit the man, asking him to follow it. Grunting each time more strange, the otter - that didn't get a name - entered the man's residence, who watched everything astonished. In a certain moment, he even asked the otter if all that mess wasn't just a nightmare. The otter said it wasn't. He decided to trust the otter.

Edição # 9 - december, 2003.

Now, inside the house, the man could hear another word not so pleasant for his ears. "Stupid! Stupid!". And the otter was drooling a lot. With one of the paws it turned on the television.. With the other one it threw the newspaper into the owner's lap, who, sitting on the sofa, was trying to understand how possible it was for an otter to speak (Oh, I forgot to say that the man was very old. He walked with a stick everywhere, but didn't have mental ability to hit a certain blow in the head of the cheeky otter). The headline on the newspaper said this: "The reform that tax the inactives is approoved". On TV, the presenter of the news informed: "Retireds have to get a new register on Social Security Nacional Institute until tomorrow".

The otter was extremely exalted. The man kept impassive. Then, the otter got up, cleared its throat and started to speak:

- Man! pay attention! Inactive and retired are the same thing! And you are a retired person. The government will get your money off even after you have worked like a prisioner for more than thirty years! Please, don´t tell me you think it's absolutely normal, do you? And what about spending hours and hours in a line, so that you, man, can renew your right of being robbed by the government? Man is a really problematic race. He isn't able to see what's right in front of his face. I mean, he can see. But doesn't act. Man, you have to fight for your rights. Do like me: get away from your inercy well and bring the other men to reality.

In this time of desmobilized society and sedative media, just an otter to make the man aware.