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7 months, 3 weeks ago

the necrophiliac male pigeon back for more

I took a long time making breakfast and had just got everything ready when I realised I’d forgotten something, I don’t remember what, and went back to the bedroom. I couldn’t help glancing out of the window at the sunny evening and, my God, what do I see but the necrophiliac male pigeon back for mo…

—p.163 The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero
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7 months, 3 weeks ago

plunged into a terrible confusion

[...] I was even more surprised when this presumed male pigeon suddenly broke out into a frenzied courtship dance around the corpse. I’d just got dressed and hadn’t had any breakfast; I was keen to have some and get on with my day, since my monumental all-nighter meant I’d woken up very late and ha…

—p.162 by Mario Levrero
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7 months, 3 weeks ago

the world of the computer is even appearing in my dreams

I managed to update my schedule for the week, print it out and turn the computer off again; eight minutes in total. While I was at it, I checked the graph of my screen time; it’s still a bit high for my liking, but it’s dropped considerably, from five hours a day to three hours and fifty-six minute…

—p.152 by Mario Levrero
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7 months, 3 weeks ago

what you might call our awareness of the illness

Yesterday (Friday, I mean) I had time to phone my cousin; he left me an answerphone message about ten days ago, and I hadn’t been able to get to the phone at a reasonable hour to call him back. And you need plenty of time to spare if you want to talk to my cousin; he doesn’t share my phobia of tele…

—p.151 by Mario Levrero
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7 months, 3 weeks ago

today I woke up furious at my addiction

But now I’m rambling. I’ll just mention that the computer was turned on for most of the day. I didn’t receive a single email. I turned one of my Visual Basic programs into another, which will tell me whenever I’m straying from the schedule I set myself for using the computer. Because today I woke u…

—p.150 by Mario Levrero