"Last cigarettes all you can get, turning your orbit around"

About Roberto Bolaño's "Dance Card"

Ideas. Scenes. One after the other, one after another. Before and After... Jodorowsky. He idealized Jodorowsky. He left Jodorowsky, because really, Jodorowsky had never been with him. He had never understood him. He never cared.

"But the fathers must be killed; poets are born orphans". Chilean poets are born orphans. Neruda. Neruda yes. Neruda no. Neruda and Roberto Bolaño's love-hate relationship. Neruda and other poets. Neruda and all his friends, or maybe Neruda and all his non friends. Neruda as Death in "Death and all his friends".

Dance Card: "The man in charged was a communist factory worker, chubby and perplexed, but willing to fight". Aren't we all him? Shouldn't we all be him? Willing to fight. Fight for conviction, fight for ideas made reality, fight for ourselves. Selfishness? Selfishness. "Were the Chileans of my generation brave? Yes, they were" "Is it possible to die of sadness? Yes, it is".

It is.

"During a period of my life, I used to see Adolf Hitler in the corridor of my house. At first I thought it was the devil. After 2 weeks Hitler disappeard and I was expecting him to be replaced by Stalin. But Stalin didn't show. It was Neruda..."

Word of the day: PILLAGE