But what are good times? Sergio Gonzalez asked himself. Maybe they´re what separate certain people from the rest of us , who live in a state of perpetual sadness. The will to live, the will to fight, as his father used to say, but fight what? The inevitable? Fight who? And what for? More time, certain knowledge, the glimpse of something essential? As if there were anything essential in this shitty country, he thought, anything essential on this whole self-sucking motherfucker of a planet.


taken from 2666, by Roberto Bolano