The classic story terms suggest an even bigger obstacle to good technique: the very idea of what story is and how it works.
“Hemingway escribió: «El mundo nos rompe a todos, pero luego algunos se vuelven más fuertes en las partes rotas».”
― Salvar el fuego
― Salvar el fuego
“Son ciertas las mentiras que ha dicho el que dice la verdad.”
― Salvar el fuego
― Salvar el fuego
“while the world worlds up at us.” I”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
“He’d lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he’d almost forgotten what real fear was.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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