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match boxes are zoos odlok   I  oskolume The police has confiscated a collection of matches belonging to Kornelio Etxeberria. Match boxes collected all over the world were kept in the same closet where he kept gin bottles.
What Kornelio Etxeberria declared to the judge:

"Zoos are match boxes and animals hide among the matches. Didn't you know that? When you imprison them in the boxes they hide in the matches lurking to flee. Match boxes are zoos... everyone knows that... match boxes are crammed with animals. I just try to release those animals. I take them out of the box one by one and light them. And suddenly the flame draws a swallow, some other times a lion or a hound or a parrot or... and I light them and the forest is set free. That's all...".

Kornelio Etxeberria is serving a 6 year, 2 month, one day sentence for arson in 80 acres of forest. He's been nicknamed "Arsonist" by prison mates and they laugh at his story "And why don't you hide us in one of those match boxes to escape from this place?" asked one of them. Kornelio Etxeberria remained silent mulling over... "all right, one day I'll help you" he asserts seriously... prison mates laugh at it. Kornelio Etxeberria too fakes a grin, and eventually tells himself "but first, one of these nights I'll have to set free the elephant that is hiding in the prison mattress".