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You see, Porky, you have not touched the heart of another. So there can be no grief. You have passed through life without meaning.0

His face vary still watching not the day give way to night but some inward night come upon him

Bolivars says, pain is a dog that follows you no matter where you go.
He shakes himself, wipes his eyes with his wrist.
We are like a pair of old women, he says. We need to stop this blubbering. It uses up moisture.

Listen, I don’t know how to answer your questions. Each day now I’m watching a part of me that is not a part of me. This is the part that is here. All the other parts of me are not here. They are back there. I do not know how to explain this. There is a part of me playing football right now. Another part of me is with Lucrezia.

Each bead of water that passes his lips, that fills the cups, that is filling the bucket, is a drop of time and life distilled