Roberto Bolano Quotes

He Said That For Those Who Hadn't Been To California, What It Was Most Like Was An Enchanted Island. The Spitting Image. Just Like In The Movies, But Better. People Live In Houses, Not Apartment Buildings, He Said, And Then He Embarked On A Comparison Of Houses (one-story, At Most Two-story), And Four- Or Five-story Buildings Where The Elevator Is Broken One Day And Out Of Order The Next. The Only Way Buildings Compared Favorably To Houses Was In Terms Of Proximity. A Neighborhood Of Buildings Makes Distances Shorter, He Said. Everything Is Closer. You Can Go Walking To Buy Groceries Or You Can Walk To Your Local Tavern (here He Winked At Reverend Foster), Or The Local Church You Belong To, Or A Museum. In Other Words, You Don't Need To Drive. You Don't Even Need A Car. And Here He Recited A List Of Statistics On Fatal Car Accidents In A County Of Detroit And A County Of Los Angeles. And That's Even Considering That Cars Are Made In Detroit, He Said, Not Los Angeles.

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