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I can’t believe I had this absolute masterpiece sitting unread on my shelf for nearly 3 years

“Latin America, stained by its brutal history with colonization and instability, has proven fertile ground for caudillos on both sides of the political spectrum, caudillos who have exploited people’s yearning for stable democracies to their advantage.”

Don’t want this to end but also need to know what happens

I read this 5 years ago and I hate that it’s still as relevant as it was then. Decided to pick up to re-read and see what I think now

“But even thoughts, insubstantial as they seem, need a footing, or they begin to spin, run in frenzied circles; they can’t bear nothingness either.”

“The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.”

I read this when I was 16 and don’t think I fully appreciated it, so reading it again

So many references that I find myself searching things up every few pages, but I’m enjoying so far. Unlike anything I’ve read before