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140 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2000
I've had to sleep in hotels where you feel like you're wasting an opportunity to kill yourself.
Study, boys, or you'll end up being journalists.
The planet had turned into a new Babel where nobody could understand anybody else, but the important thing was to not understand anybody else in English.
When a gringo journalist finds something ‘Buñuelesque’ in Mexico, it means that he saw something horrible he thought was magical.
i told him i had no aspirations to protagonism; i was just sick of americans taking advantage of us. instead of translating monsiváis or mejía madrid, they sent a cretin who got the madonna treatment just because he wrote in english. the planet had turned into a new babel where nobody could understand anybody else, but the important thing was not to understand anybody else in english. i thought my speech was patriotic, so i went on and on until i got scared i was sounding anti-semitic.*translated from the spanish by kimi traube