Joaquim Pibernat read more than he wrote. He listened more than he spoke. He was an enigmatic figure on the Barcelona cultural scene. Hieratic, serious, seductive. He went to the pictorial and literary varnishes, he acted as a voyeur. He died in 2022 in the midst of a resounding silence. His friends –Manel Guerrero, Claret Serrahima, Vicenç Altaió, Antoni Llena...–, who knew him as far as he let himself be known, miss him and have recovered him with the edition of a tribute box-book that includes The hell of pants, a nihilistic litany of 894 unpublished aphorisms, a kind of posthumous self-portrait accompanied by drawings by Antoni Llena. Aphorisms by someone who did not consider himself good enough to commit suicide. Here is a synthetic selection.