For a moment he thought that his destiny, his screwed-up American destiny, would be to meet his death like Dahlman in ‘The South’, and it seemed wrong, partly because he now had debts to repay, and partly because he wasn’t ready to die,

Roberto Bolaño, The Collected Short Stories of Roberto Bolaño (‘The Insufferable Gaucho’), ≈41%

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