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I'm quite illiterate but I read a lot.

"A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that "they" will never allow him to do this, that and the other. [...] Who were "they"? I asked. Nobody seemed to know; but evidently "they" were omnipotent.

"A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation for getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in times of stress "educated" people tend to come to the front; they are no more gifted than others and their "education" is quite useless in itself, but they are accustomed to a certain amount of deference and consequently they have the cheek necessary to a commander."

Almost finishing, that is good, I have dedicated more time to read this book and to think about its content than focusing in my research. Even I have dreamed with the characters. I need to read less and work more!!!

I am becoming a keen reader of authors who in one way or another write criticisms about the cultures and societies in which they have grown up. Those readings have given me the perspective I have been looking for. This time I am reading a Mexican author. Still a long way to go but I hope I can manage to put together a review of this book.

"Julio no solo escribia mal: no cogia, o o coia en serio"

Si la poesia es una forma de erotismo entonces es necesario saber coger, jajajaja, si no, no se puede escribir poesia de calidad. Jajajajaja.

"Once you decide something doesn't concern you, you just cut yourself off"

This is the second book I read from Kirino, she writes about women whose lives are caught in death end paths and their desperate struggles to escape their hopelessness. I feel identified with her characters because I have been trapped in those death end situations myself but I can say I was fortunate, I recognize that not everybody is as lucky as I have been.