Naked Lunch Snuff

Leí también, y registro aquí, Naked Lunch (the restored text) de William S. Burroughs, 1959, y Snuff, de Chuck Palahniuk, 2008. En ninguno de los dos casos la experiencia fue agradable. El primero de ellos tiene un cierto atractivo histórico, pero me dejó sintiendo que es puro cholulismo. El segundo parece hecho para ganar dinero, por lo que deberían leerlo apenas los que son pagos por ello.

Haruki

Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's personal opinion. It depends on the person, he said, about the kind of lies they tell, what situation they tell them in, and how the lies are told. But at a certain point in their lives, all women tell lies, and they lie about important things. They lie about unimportant things, too, but they also don't hesitate to lie about the most important things. And when they do, most women's expressions and voices don't change at all, since it's not them lying, but this independent organ they're equipped with that's acting on its own. That's why - except in a few special cases - they can still have a clear conscience and never lose sleep over anything they say.

Haruki Murakami, Men without women (2017).

Passion

Well, you're sort of a doctor, but this is hard to say. Well, Bingo wouldn't sleep with me very much, if you know what I mean and if you'll pardon the expression things was pretty much going to hell. So one night I just up and told her why I got married and what she got married for and from then on things was different I can tell you and we got to love one another all over again and it was like a different world and we used to laugh at her old women.

Tales of the South Pacific, James A. Michener, 1946.

Survivor

According to Fertility Hollis, there is no chaos.

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.

If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.

There is no free will.

There are no variables.

"There is only the inevitable," Fertility says. "There's only one future. You don't have a choice."

The bad news is we don't have any control.

The good news is you can't make any mistakes.


Chuck Palahniuk. Survivor, 1999.

You can always come back

"I know you are going to leave. One day you'll figure it out and leave." Suzanne's mother says.

"Yes, I know, Mum," Suzanne answers.

"Well, what have I taught you? What did I fill you up with? You know, Suzy, there's a big, bad wolf out there just waiting to eat you up. You can leave but you can always come back. You can live here again. Life can be a circle, not just a line. And don't chew gum ever, Suzy. No lady ever chews gum."

Jennifer Clement. Widow Basquiat, 2000.