I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
Interpretation
Dreams can influence our emotions and perceptions, often carrying darker undertones.
In this quote, Roberto Bolano reflects on the nature of dreams, suggesting that they are not merely benign or gentle, but can be harsh and troublesome, represented metaphorically by scorpions. This perspective prompts contemplation on the impact dreams and subconscious thoughts have on our waking life, highlighting the complexity of our inner experiences and the potential for anxiety within them.
In practice
In a literature class discussing the symbolism in Bolano's work.
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Being alone makes us stronger. Thatβs the honest truth. But itβs cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.
In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.
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