European nights might be pitch-dark or coal-black, but not American nights, which are dark like a void, where there’s nothing to hold on to, no shelter from the elements, just empty, storm-whipped space, above and below.
Roberto Bolaño, The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño (‘The Insufferable Gaucho’), ≈39%
European nights might be pitch-dark or coal-black, but…
European nights might be pitch-dark or coal-black, but not American nights, which are dark like a void, where there’s nothing to hold on to, no shelter from the elements, just empty, storm-whipped space, above and below. Roberto Bolaño, The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño (‘The Insufferable Gaucho’), ≈39%
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