Status Updates From A House in the Country

"al interponerme de vez en cuando con el relato sólo deseo recordarle al lector su distancia con el material de esta novela"

Dios, quiero tanto terminar este libro. Ya me tiene cansado.

Isn’t it characteristic of savages to declare their own impunity simply because they wield the power?

What would become of our civilization without your sweet tyrannies?

‘My dear fellow, we tell them the truth.’

The Chef was about to inquire which truth he had in mind, among the many that power commands.

How can it be that these people who have everything in the world, who in due time will become the captains of the empire of hand-laminated gold and owners of mines and whole tribes, should suddenly turn anarchists and destroy their own things, jeopardizing, in short, their prospects for inheriting power?