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.
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. _x000D_ When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
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