Status Updates From 2666

This has a lot of aspects in long novels I enjoy and combined that with the strength of prose alone, it could be one of my favorite novels of all time. I don’t know why I like violent books so much but I’d argue they provide some relief when most people would rather not talk about these unpleasant aspects of reality. lol that my image of Saint Theresa is the most Mexican place I’ve ever been, San Juan Bautista

Finished Part 3: The Part About Fate

I'm really certain that the venn diagram between Bolaño readers and Lynch fans is a perfect circle. He didn't need to do that namedrop for an internet cafe there but I guess he needed to be sure. Anyway, he seems to have predicted, among other things, the rise of Netflix, and the actual plot of Twin Peaks season 3

‘‘My only sin—I’ve told you—has been cowardice, and I’m paying dearly for it.’ Impossible as it seems, the noise grows louder. Call it noise, why not. One might call it a roar, a clamour, a hammering, a great shriek, a bellow of the gods, but noise is a simple word that serves just as well to describe what has no name. At that instant, said Ingeborg to Archimboldi, I understood that there could be music in anything—’