It was as if I’d returned to life, as if night had stopped in its tracks, peeked through the blinds, and said: Señor Salvatierra, Amadeo, you have my permission, get out there and declaim until you’re hoarse—I mean, what I’m trying to say is that I didn’t feel sleepy at all anymore, it was as if the tequila I’d just swallowed had met up with the Los Suicidas in my guts, in my obsidian liver, and was bowing down to it, as well it should, since certain class distinctions still exist.