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”A name. Like all of them, the more it was said, the less meaning it had.”

”And then I saw them, at the bottom, waiting for me. A myriad of perfect blue eyes, fixedly, elliptically watching me from under the water. And then I turned back, back.
I turned back.”

’She brought her anise-scented lips close to my face and said, “I know you are a woman.” She smiled and, with nothing more, returned to her position in front of the fireplace.’

“I am sure that the man who commanded them,” she continued with the glass again at her lips, “came to die in your hospital.“

”Disappearance is contagious. Everyone knows this. In the past it was believed to be caused by something external, something that a much more powerful agent imposed on an innocent victim, often brutally. But with scientific and technological advances, we now know that to become a disappeared person, previous contact with another such person is necessary.”

Ahora sí, estas últimas 60 páginas (las 60 páginas de la mitad del libro) me han agarrado fuerte, percibo de pronto el estilo y la prosa poética súper cargada de alegorías y referencias a lo sublime e inagotable de la sensibilidad que a lo mejor ya estaba, pero no acompañado de un hilo narrativo que me interesara.

Tiene una atmósfera extraña, con una tensión que a estas alturas sigue sin resolverse :)

“Thanks to my work in the municipal hospital, I spent little time with her. I say thanks now, which would seem to indicate that I liked my work. The reality is quite the contrary. For years I had intensely despised the tall walls of that fortification, which some bureaucrat with a malevolent imagination had decided to place right on the edge of the sea, on one of the most beautiful points of the coast”

“I know you from when you were a tree,” she said. “From those times.”

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