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“Why is there so much meaning when a mind breaks? Why isn't it all just static and nonsense?”
― Mark Vonnegut, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So

“The same thing happens in literature: in the composition of some works, the author becomes a whole society, by means of a kind of symbolic condensation, writing with the real or virtual collaboration of all the culture's specialists, while others works are made by an individual, working alone like the nomadic woman, in which case society is signified by the arrangement of the writer's books in relation to the books of others, their periodic appearance, and so on.”
― César Aira, Ghosts

“Patri wondered if she wasn't herself (and this was the secret of all her thought) a woman in disguise, brilliantly disguised.. as a woman.”
― César Aira, Ghosts

“The centre of the village is a void elegantly furnished with a bloody suction.”
― César Aira, Ghosts