It happens that one day the children begin to draw, and everything that was missing in that narrow, enclosed world begins appearing on scraps of pape… - Angelina Muñiz-Huberman

If the 20th century was the century of disillusionment, as I have called it, the 21st is that of absolute stupidity. Of delirious futility. Of frenetic destruction. Of dumbing-down the mind. Of utter sloth and, therefore, incompetence. Of lying sprawled out on the couch. Of feet up on the table. Of troglodytism. Of amnesia. But not magnesia. Of the electronic internet revolution. Everything within easy reach of the keyboard and the docile finger. An homage without further ado to the obliging finger. It will have to change its look, wipe off its unique fingerprint in exchange for a collective one. (beginning of "A Stroll Through the 20th Century")

Most men worry about leaving their fleeting shadow on the slippery surface of history, but I knew that my life had already been lived and that I only repeated an ancient and unjust tale.

Thus it is that the man who invokes the dragon becomes his slave and has to feed the swollen belly and its insatiable appetite. Because the dragon promises him everything but demands everything of him.