The memory is like the wind, sometimes warm, gentle and prone to a smile, sometimes violent, merciless and unwelcome. The memory looks like the wind,… - José Baroja

It's payday, reason enough for customers to cram every space in the venue looking for a beer. Today there is money ergo there is drink. Bibere ergosum.

Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.

Original source: ... lo literario se alimenta de la fragilidad de la vida. Baroja, J. (2018). En El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos. Barcelona: Ediciones Oblicuas, ISBN:978-84-172694-0-1.