In one of the first texts that are part of Shrinking landscapes, Climent Picornell's new book published by El Gall Editor, tells an anecdote that perfectly sums up the book's essence. It is transcribed by Picornell, but these are the words of one of his neighbors, Miquel Granyón. "They expropriated a small piece of land from me, inside a two-quarter-mile section that I have going to Sineu, because they had to widen the railway track. And now the train passes through what was mine and you'd like to believe that the goats I have, two dozen of them, when it passes, they stop... and watch it go by!" As if it were one of Miquel's little animals. Granyón, Picornell demonstrates again in Shrinking landscapes who can't help but raise his head every time reality, with all its force and speed, passes him by.