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"The heart of the matter is knowing whether evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it's purposeful, we can fight it, it's hard to defeat, but we have a chance, like two boxers in the same weight class, more or less. If it's random, on the other hand, we're fucked, and we'll just have to hope that God, if He exists, has mercy on us. And that's what it all comes down to."
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Jeff
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"Then, humbled and confused and in a burst of utter Mexicanness, I knew that we were ruled by fate and that we would all drown in the storm, and I knew that only the cleverest, myself certainly not included, would stay afloat much longer."
— Mar 05, 2026 01:36PM
Jeff
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Bolaño gets no credit for writing humourous and erotic sex scenes. The two de Sade reader scenes (María and Luscious Skin, and Belano and the Simone) are funny in different ways.
— Feb 27, 2026 11:22PM
Jeff
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"You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold on to her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement."
— Feb 23, 2026 12:04AM
Jeff
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On my 12th (give or take) reread my poor copy is finally falling apart 😭
— Jan 28, 2026 03:27PM
