Living with someone probably means losing part of your own identity. Living with someone contaminates (36) - Margo Glantz

Time is a space marked out and filled with the ceaseless chanting of prayers by which a devout Jew measures his life.

my brother-in-law says I don't seem Jewish, because Jews, like our first cousins the Arabs, hate images. So everything is mine and yet it isn't, and I look Jewish and I don't and that is why I am writing this- my family history, the story of my own family tree. (Prologue)

In Y por mirarlo todo, nada veía, I tried to show how the meaningless proliferation of news and the almost endemic impossibility of ranking and practicing irony contaminate and disable us in our efforts to keep a healthy mental distance.