Victoria

“Cuando Julio Verne nos hablaba de fantasiosos viajes a luna que despegaban de un lugar muy cercano al Cabo Cañaveral: ¿ERA UN ESCRITOR DE LITERATURA FANTÁSTICA O UN VISIONARIO?”
― Gonzalo Guma

“¿Tenés idea de la cantidad de eventos, circunstancias y decisiones que tuvieron que haberse dado para que yo lo haya escrito y para que vos lo estés leyendo ahora? Son tantas las coincidencias que
debieron complotarse, que hasta parecería un capricho del Destino
que hoy nos estemos comunicando a través de estas líneas. Un infinitésimo cambio en ese aglomerado de circunstancias y todo hubiese sido muy diferente…”
― Gonzalo Guma, Equinoccio. Susurros del destino

“PROLOGUE
Have you ever had the feeling that someone was playing with your destiny? If so, this book is for you!
Destiny is certainly something people like to talk about. Wherever we go, we hear it mentioned in conversations or proverbs that seek to lay bare its mysteries.
If we analyse people’s attitude towards destiny a little, we find straight away that at one extreme are those who believe that everything in life is planned by a higher power and that therefore things always happen for a reason, even though our limited human understanding cannot comprehend why.
In this perspective, everything is preordained, regardless of what we do or don’t do.
At the other extreme we find the I can do it! believers. These focus on themselves: anything is possible if done with conviction, as part of the plan that they have drawn up themselves as the architects of their own Destiny.
We can safely say that everything happens for a reason. Whether it’s because of decisions we take or simply because circumstances determine it, there is always more causation than coincidence in life. But sometimes such strange things happen! The most insignificant occurrence or decision can give way to the most unexpected futures.
Indeed, such twists of fate may well be the reason why you are reading my book now. Do you have any idea of the number of events, circumstances and decisions that had to conspire for me to write this and for you to be reading it now? There are so many coincidences that had to come together that it might almost seem a whim of destiny that today we are connected by these words. One infinitesimal change in that bunch of circumstances and everything would have been quite different…
All these fascinating issues are to be found in Equinox.
I enjoy fantasy literature very much because of all the reality it involves. As a reader you’re relaxed, your defences down, trying to enjoy an loosely-structured adventure. This is the ideal space for you to allow yourself to be carried away to an imaginary world that, paradoxically, will leave you reflecting on real life questions that have little to do with fiction, although we may not understand them completely.”
― Gonzalo Guma, Equinoccio. Susurros del destino

“All our firsts, and our lasts, and everything in between. They swirl and dance on the invisible currents, and then one by one, they disappear to a place they will always be a part of.”
― Jessi Kirby, Things We Know by Heart