#210

“No importa lo que buscan, sino lo que encuentran” (id, 260).

#209

“Mientras tuvieron cerca al león, por su influjo se abandonaran a la antigua naturaleza animal que hay en lo profundo del hombre. Fueron agresivos, crueles, cobardes, estúpidos. Retirada la fiera por los peones municipales, en todos prevaleció de nuevo el criterio humano, sin duda impuro de hipocresía, pero también refulgente de compasión y de coraje” (id, 210).

#208

“Desde muy joven he comprendido que para no dejarse arrasar por la inconsiderada producción de libros y para conseguir, siquiera en aparencia, una cultura enciclopédica, era imprescindible un plan de lecturas” (Casares, 2007: 47).

CASARES, Adolfo Bioy (2007). Historias Fantásticas. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.

#207

“Don't you see, it isn't that women mean too little to me – what's caused the trouble is that they mean so much” (id, 245).

#206

“Now I am sure that many of the young women (...) who set themselves up as specialists in loving hadn't a very clear idea of how strong a charge their emotions got from the instinct of survival – or how much those emotions arose out of the yearning to own and be owned rather than from a reservoir of pure and selfless love that was the special property of themselves and their gender. After all, how lovable are men? Particularly men “unable to love”? No, there was more to all that talk about “permanent relationships” than many young women (and their chosen mates) were able to talk about or able at that time fully to understand: the more was the fact of female dependence, defenselessness, and vulnerability” (id, 171).

#205

“I'm yours. I'll do anything. Come and go as you like. Let me feed you. let me sit with you at night and watch you read. You can do anything you want to my body. I'll do anything you say. Just have dinner with me sometimes and use some of these things. And I'll never utter a peep. I'll be good as gold. I won't ask what you do when you go away. You don't don't have to take me anywhere. Just stay here sometimes and make use of whatever you want, including me. You see, I have these thick bath-sized towels and Belgian lace tablecloths, all this lovely crockery, three bathrooms, two televisions, and two million dollars (...), I have these breasts and this vagina, these limbs, this skin – and no life” (Roth, 1993: 153).

ROTH, Philip (1993). My Life As A Man. Vintage: New York.