All lives have, in childhood or early youth, founding episodes that are not erased no matter how long ago they occurred. They are impactful and formative episodes that forge a personality because they help you define a conception of life and a vision of the world, to discover good and evil (to define the meaning of what is just and what is unjust), and also to become familiar with a perplexity pierced by anxieties and wonders that no longer exists. The Mallorcan poet and translator Miquel Àngel Llauger (Palma, 1963) has taken two of these episodes and transformed them into literature in his new book, Whale diptych.