“Y como todos los monstruos geniales ante quienes un acontecimiento externo abre una vía recta en la espiral caótica de sus almas, Grenouille ya no se apartó de lo que él creía haber reconocido como la dirección de su destino.”
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“Lightning goes off inside huge thunderheads nine miles off the starboard wing. In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.”
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“Por tanto, para todas estas cosas, consideramos a la ballena como inmortal en cuanto especie, por más que sea perecedera en su individualidad.”
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“His fear was already gone; it had slipped away from him as easily as a nightmare slips away from a man who awakes, cold-skinned and gasping, from its grip; who feels his body and stares at his surroundings to make sure that none of it ever happened and who then begins at once to forget it. Half is gone by the time his feet hit the floor; three-quarters of it by the time he emerges from the shower and begins to towel off; all of it by the time he finishes his breakfast. All gone ... until the next time, when, in the grip of the nightmare, all fears will be remembered.”
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“mi propia individualidad estaba ahora fundida en una sociedad comanditaria de dos; que mi libre albedrío había recibido una herida mortal, y que, en mi inocencia, el error o la desgracia de otro podía hundirme en desastre y muerte no merecidos.”
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Esteban’s 2025 Year in Books
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