Status Updates From The Black Cathedral

This is a terrible plan...but interesting that the inmate of a Cuban prison can be like "Yeah, obviously I'd get HIV meds if I needed them? Why wouldn't they just give them to me for free?"

"I saw the dad man again yesterday... 'So when will I meet the love of my life?' I asked. 'Man or woman?' Aramis said with that sad irony of the dead, and I understood that he couldn't forgive that Araceli and I had been lovers. 'The gender doesn't matter,' I told him, 'but I want to be truly loved, to be loved like she loved me.' 'But it didn't last.' 'Nothing lasts.'"

“It seemed so irrational to declare that the temple was cursed, that we were erecting the cathedral of evil…I had to tell him:… ‘You no longer need an architect as much as…someone who can bring a comprehensive end to the mad factory that’s now come of the temple we once saw as restrained, rational…the temple is sick, and I don’t have the medicine to cure it’”

“When I returned to the classroom, I was so pale, I looked like Michael Jackson. ‘I was going to send someone for you,’ the teacher said. ‘I thought you’d gone down the toilet.’ ‘I don’t feel good. I saw a dead person.’ ‘You can tell,’ he said with a smile, but then he let me leave.”

"'Every person who is born into the world has the right to education and in return has the duty to contribute to the education of others,' Marti said, and I tried to educate those young men, to give them a sense of what morals and ethics are, but I failed, because they were rotten. To the core, they were rotten; something was hiding behond that Christianity their parents paraded about - something."

Damn, cracking a guy’s head open with a book is some next-level nerd-jitsu!