Bolano - The Americas




Latin America was Europe's mental asylum just as North America was its factory.  The foreman have taken over the factory now and the labor force is made up of escapees from the asylum.  For over sity years, the asylum has been burning in its own oil, its own fat.


-Roberto Bolano, from The Myths of Cthulhu.





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