JOSÉ ISRAEL CARRANZA bursts biographical notes, as the signs that appear of himself (who is an essayist, editor, professor of literature and journalist columnist) reminds him how foolishly he is moving away from what he would rather be in life: cabbie. He has published several short story books and one essay (two with this one), all almost unreachable, and an already considerable collection of articles in which he is basically cursed by what he does not think (which is almost everything).