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“Ahí estaban mis amigos, vivos. No nos había pasado nada. Los estreché muy fuerte y me llevé sus manos al pecho, y me percaté de que la función evolutiva más sofisticada de las manos no es manipular una herramienta, sino lograr entrelazarse con las de otros.”

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El tercer mundo después del sol

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“It seemed my whole life was composed of these disjointed fractions of time, hanging around in one public place and then another, as if I were waiting for trains that never came. And, like one of those ghosts who are said to linger around depots late at night, asking passersby for the timetable of the Midnight Express that derailed twenty years before, I wandered from light to light until that dreaded hour when all the doors closed and, stepping from the world of warmth and people and conversation overheard, I felt the old familiar cold twist through my bones again and then it was all forgotten, the warmth, the lights; I had never been warm in my life, ever.”