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"Well, I could never write this book, you know. Once I retired I immediately had blocks. But as soon as I got cancer most of my blocks fell away. I can do whatever I want now"Everyman habla de la muerte, del miedo a la muerte, de la inminencia de la muerte, como fuerza vital. No somos como somos porque morimos, todo muere, pero tal vez sí somos lo que somos porque antes de cumplir los diez años la gente que ha estado ahí siempre empieza a irse, nuestra inmortalidad flaquea y nace la angustia que desencadena la vida que llevamos, lo que hacemos, lo que recorremos. La muerte nos vuelve invencibles. La muerte no nos detiene, nos jala, no nos deja yacer, nos fuerza a respirar.
"Yeah," Ez said, "I think it is. I don't advise it. You know I may make it. Then we'll have that lunch and you'll give me the statue. If I make it, the doctor say I can have a normal life."P. Roth, Everyman
Quizo pedirles que se detuvieran, ordenarles que no continuaran—él no quería que cubrieran la cara de su padre y bloquearan los conductos que le permitian aspirar en vida. Yo he visto esa cara desde que nací—¡Detenganse, no sepulten la cara de mi padre!Yo una vez casi me muero de un ataque de asma al lado de una piscina. «Se ahogó en la piscina», hubieran dicho. Yo una vez casi me muero de un tiro en la espalda al lado de una piscina, no lo dispararon. Yo una vez casi me muero, tenía nueve meses, estuve hospitalizado, no me acuerdo. Casi me muero todo el tiempo. ¿Quién no?P. Roth, Everyman

I saw and inhaled death. I tasted death on my teeth. I exhaled, and the feeble puffs of breath could not push my nausea away. Only time I did that—a night and a day, to be exact—after which I forgot again until I was writing these very words that I must die. I believed but for a moment. Thus I became one with those skulls which no longer knew their death. Even writing this, picking my letters from the alphabeth's boneyard, my o's like death's-heads, my i's and l's like ribs, my b's, q's, p's and d's like ball ended humeri broken in half, I believed only by fits. The smell came back into my nose, but I was in Vienna by then —whose catacumbs, by the way, I decided not to visit—so I went out and smelled espresso heaped with fresh cream.W.T. Vollman, Three meditations on death
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"You know why she's carrying on like that?" "I believe I do," he whispered back, meaning by this, It's because it is for her as it's been for me ever since I was a boy. It's because it is for her as it is for everyone. It's because life's most disturbing intensity is death. It's because death is so unjust. It's because once one has tasted life, death does not even seem natural. I had thought —secretly I was certain—that life goes on and on. "Well, you're wrong," the man said flatly, as though having read his mind. "She's like that all the time. That has been the story for fifty years," he added with an unforgiving scowl. "She's like that because she isn't eighteen anymore."P. Roth, Everyman

Y entonces -tal vez abrumado por la enormidad de la empresa a la que me enfrento, tal vez conmovido por el bramar de la más perfecta de las euforias- suspiro y me despierto sabiendo que volveré a soñar todo esto hasta la última página del libro, hasta el último día de mi vida, por los siglos de los siglos. Arrivals & Departures por encima de toda catástrofe en la que sólo yo, un humilde escritor cuyo nombre no es digno de figurar en página alguna, sobreviví para contar esta y tantas otras historias.Otras canciones tristes: Portnoy comenta La velocidad de las cosas (VC). Roberto hace lo propio con Mantra (M). Por acá hay una reseña de hace un año de Jardines de Kensington (JK). Les quedo debiendo Esperanto (E) y Vida de Santos (VS). Eso completaría las ficciones de Fresán (FF) hasta la fecha.R. Fresán, La vocación literaria
In literature and folklore, the significance and the fascination of golems—from Rabbi Loew's to Victor von Frankenstein's—lay in their soullessness, in their tireless inhuman strength, in their methaphorical association with overweening human ambition, and in the frightening ease with which they passed beyond the control of their horrified and admiring creators. But it seemed to Joe that none of these—Faustian hubris, least of all—were among the true reasons that impelled men, time after time, to hazard the making of golems. The shaping of a golem, to him, was a gesture of hope, offered against hope, in a time of desperation. It was the the expression of a yearning that a few magic words and an artful hand might produce something—one poor, dumb, powerful thing—exempt from the crushing strictures, from the ills, cruelties, and inevitable failures of the greater Creation. It was the voicing of a vain wish, when you got down to it, to escape.We'll love aladdin saneM. Chabon, The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, was summoned into existence through language, through murmuring, recital, and kabbalistic chitchat—was, literaly, talked into life.M. Chabon, The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Fabulaciones. No hay en Quero rastro de insurgentes o soldados. Tampoco me sorprende este nuevo desmentido de la realidad a los rumores: la información, en el país, ha dejado de ser algo objetivo y se ha vuelto fantasía, tanto en los diarios, la radio y la televisión como en la boca de las personas. «Informar» es ahora, entre nosotros, interpretar la realidad de acuerdo a los deseos, temores o conveniencias, algo que aspira a sustituir un desconocimiento sobre lo que pasa, que, en nuestro fuero íntimo, aceptamos como irremediable y definitivo. Puesto que es imposible saber lo que de veras sucede, los peruanos mienten, inventan, sueñan, se refugian en la ilusión. Por el camino más inesperado, la vida del Perú, en el que tan poca gente lee, se ha vuelto literaria.M. Vargas Llosa, Historia de Mayta
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.¿Cosas del Plan o fenómeno Baader-Meinhof? Tal vez Jesucristo continúa siguiendo mis pasos.J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy