#2666

[quotespile]

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

Roberto Bolaño, 2666

[litsnaps]

[litandlifequotes]

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

[loneberry]

“Now all I read is poetry. Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game. I don’t know if you follow me, Professor. Only poetry—and let me be clear, only some of it—is good for you, only poetry isn’t shit.”

—Roberto Bolaño, 2666

[illsoda]

"And yet this vision of Lola lingered in his mind for many years, like a memory rising up from glacial seas, although in fact he hadn't seen anything, which meant there was nothing to remember, only the shadow of streetlights, and then the dream: Lola walking off down one of the highways out of Sant Cugat, walking along the side of the road, an almost deserted road since most cars took the new toll highway to save time, a woman bowed by the weight of her suitcase, fearless, walking fearlessly along the side of the road."

2666 by Roberto Bolaño, pg. 185 trans. Natasha Wimmer.

[mergist]

"Their work, it goes without saying, is of a very low standard. They employ rhetoric where they sense a hurricane, they try to be eloquent where they sense fury unleashed, they strive to maintain the discipline of meter where there’s only a deafening and hopeless silence. They say cheep cheep, bowwow, meow meow, because they’re incapable of imagining an animal of colossal proportions, or the absence of such an animal."

Roberto Bolano, 2666

[yichelli]

2666 by Roberto Bolaño designed by Charlotte Strick

hardcover: Gustave Moreau, Jupiter and Semele

paperbacks: Book 1: Jupiter and Semele, Gustave Moreau Book 2: Academy, Cy Twombly Book 3: Sea Sponges from Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities

[areadersquoteslibrary]

"Something was missing. The decisive step, the bold stroke. The moment at which the larva, with a reckless smile, turns into a butterfly."

- Roberto Bolaño, ‘2666’

[trulyunpleasant]

“No tengo mucho tiempo, estoy viviendo.”

- Roberto Bolaño, 2666

[b-vil-bee]

At the end of the day, it will always be only them 🤭🤭🤭

[quotespile]

What a relief to give up literature, to give up writing and simply read!

Roberto Bolaño, 2666

[algumaideia]

I'm reading a webcomic called Señorita Cometa which is about a young woman that wants to rescue her friend who has been human trafficked by the mafia and the police is useless to help her friend and all the other women who have been sex trafficked.

Which is interesting to read along side 2666 specialty in the fourth part that focus more on the murders of women in Mexico.

They deal with the same topic in different moments and historical times of Mexico very differently, focusing on different aspects. The contrast is nice.

[litandlifequotes]

Excuse the metaphors. Sometimes, in my excitement, I wax romantic. But listen. Every work that isn’t a masterpiece is, in a sense, a part of a vast camouflage. You’ve been a soldier, I imagine, and you know what I mean. Every book that isn’t a masterpiece is cannon fodder, a slogging foot soldier, a piece to be sacrificed, since in multiple ways it mimics the design of the masterpiece. When I came to this realization, I gave up writing. Still, my mind didn’t stop working. In fact, it worked better when I wasn’t writing. I asked myself: why does a masterpiece need to be hidden? what strange forces wreath it in secrecy and mystery?

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

[pinnithin]

when i cant play with my starfinder characters i make memes about them

art by me and @shannanigan-art

[illsoda]

Calm is the one thing that will never let us down. And Amalfitano said: everything else lets us down? And the voice: yes, that's right, it's hard to admit, I mean it's hard to have to admit it to you, but that's the honest-to-God truth. Ethics lets us down? The sense of duty lets us down? Honesty lets us down? Curiosity lets us down? Love lets us down? Bravery lets us down? Art lets us down? That's right, said the voice, everything lets us down, everything. Or lets you down, which isn't the same thing but for our purposes it might as well be, except calm, calm is the one thing that never lets us down, though that's no guarantee of anything, I have to tell you, You're wrong, said Amalfitano, bravery never lets us down. And neither does our love for our children. Oh no? said the voice. No, said Amalfitano suddenly feeling calm.

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2666 by Roberto Bolaño, pg. 208 trans. Natasha Wimmer

[attonitos-gloria]

if you don't have plans and you need plans. or advice. or a guiding hand. here it is: you're going to get your hands on a copy of 2666 by roberto bolaño and you're going to read it. you're very welcome <3