There’s something that unites pleasure with pain and fear, don’t you think? I don’t know exactly what it is, but it has to do with the hole that swells in our stomachs when we’re on the verge of falling. What I felt that night was something like that: the vertigo that makes you lose your balance and at the same time makes you more aware than ever that you are a body and that one day you will die. It’s funny, but most of the time we forget that we’re animals made up of organs that seem right out of a nightmare. The heart, for example, is a hideous organ. It’s always there, beating, but we never
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