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Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.

Such tensions without sense push us to formulate questions of meaning.

Depressed I went out into the heat that lay on the neighborhood like a hand swollen with fever in that season, and made my way to the library.

a bitter sarcasm alternated with a quiet cult of memory.

Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.

Roberto the whole time with an attitude

No quiero leer nada más de lo que escribes. -¿Por qué? -Porque me hace daño

But I must have overdone it, and the relationship between truth and fiction must have gone awry: now every street, every building had become recognizable

Sie verstärkte die Realität, während sie sie auf Worte reduzierte, sie flößte ihr Energie ein.

But what my less easily verbalized emotions recorded under the word Caserta was a spinning nausea, vertigo, and a lack of air.

I pay attention to every system of conventions and expectations, above all literary conventions and the expectations they generate in readers. But that law-abiding side of me, sooner or later, has to face my disobedient side. And, in the end, the latter always wins.

The struggle is due to the fact that the present — the entire present — even that of the "I" who writes, letter by letter — can't maintain with clarity the thought-vision, which always comes before, is always the past, and therefore tends to be blotted out.

Yes, it was enough to pull one thread to go on playing with the mysterious figure of my mother, now enriching it, now humiliating it.

She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.

That's a weak definition of narrative. That's saying that narrative is just memory plus causality. But, for us, the narrative has aesthetics, too.

ended up having dinner with the Nagys. Everything was covered in sour cream.

neither of us was capable of acting differently, and each viewed the other with an admiration that was inseparable from pity.

though he could certainly be witty, he wasn't what you would really call funny, not like Dickens was.

He felt to me increasingly like the parody of a love interest.

For some reason she leaves a very strong impression on me. She looks exactly how I picture Nadja, André Breton's Nadja.

Microsoft Word was for kids, but the typewriter was God, the desk shook with each keystroke.

My mother said that that had been wrong. She said that children were people, whose dignity and privacy were worthy of respect. She was the only person I had ever met or heard of who thought or said anything like that.

In the birth charts of tarot readers, Neptune tends to figure prominently, often in aspect to the Moon, which is also related to intuition and psychic awareness.

Our most cultural state is one of total certainty—which is the reason those of us who are most certain are those who are most out of touch with nature (i.e., reality).