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.
The dice of God are always loaded.
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
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