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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
House of Leaves
Slaughterhouse-Five
Pale Fire
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
The Princess Bride
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Breakfast of Champions
Cloud Atlas
Redshirts
The Name of the Rose
Sophie’s World
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Don Quixote
The Neverending Story
Thornton Wilder
Y'know — Babylon once had two million people in it, and all we know about 'em is the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts . . . and contracts for the sale of slaves. Yet every night all those families sat down to supper, and the father came home from his work, and the smoke went up the chimney,— same as here. And even in Greece and Rome, all we know about the real life of the people is what we can piece together out of the joking poems and the comedies they wrote for the theatre ...more
Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón
Aquí no pasaba nada, pero todo ya se había perdido. Yo me moría por dentro; nadie, ni siquiera yo, podría dimensionar lo que aquella tragedia había derrumbado en mi interior. Si es que existe el alma, si es que yo tenía eso, seguramente ya no valdría ni siquiera un centavo. Yo era otro cadáver, un muerto más. Aunque el color de mi piel dijera otra cosa, no pertenecía a este mundo.
Diego Armando Arciniegas Malagón, Realidades y ficciones, colores y sombras

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