All of us, no matter whether noble or not, have our own family trees. (Prologue) - Margo Glantz

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

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.

Is the pleasure of remembering somehow debilitating? Maybe memory gets weakened by being handled and stretched so much. Memories return so often and we stay hooked onto some event or other... (37)