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Led Zeppelin III she wanted to dance, she shouted about lands of ice and snow and about the hammer of the gods, and only in “Since I’ve Been Loving You,”
to see if other eyes could transform him in mine.
“Babe, death is the only problem without a solution.”
He had never shown any other kind of prejudice; it was directed exclusively toward psychiatrists, mental problems, madness. They’d talked about it not long ago: Miguel had admitted to her that in his opinion, except for serious illnesses, all emotional problems could be solved by force of will.
Maybe he decided that his sadness was going to be my companion forever, for as long as he wanted, because sad people are merciless.
But I’d rather forget them because forgetting people you only knew in words is odd; when they existed they were more intense than people in real life, and now they’re more distant than strangers.
“Burnings are the work of men. They have always burned us. Now we are burning ourselves.
When would the longed-for world of men and monsters come?
The Chilean critic Lorena Amaro emphasizes that most of Mariana’s characters exist in a border space between the comfortable here and the vulnerable there; this latter could be a violent slum or a mysteriously living house, but it operates according to an unknown and sinister rationale, and it is frighteningly near.
