"Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”

#SundaySentence from one of my favorite paragraphs in a book that expanded my expectations about what a novel could do in ways that I hadnt felt since Garcia Marquez: #RobertoBolaño's #2666