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Eremita
- and then you're in serious trouble, very serious trouble, and you know it, finally, deadly serious trouble, because this Substance [álcool] you thought was your one true friend, that you gave up all for, gladly, that for so long gave you relief from the pain of the Losses your love of that relief caused, your mother and lover and god and compadre, has finally removed its smily-face mask to reveal centertless eyes and a ravening maw, and canines down to here, it's the Face In The Floor, the grinning root-white face of your worst nighmares, and the face is your own face in the mirror, now, it's you, the Substance has devoured or replaced and become you, and puke-, drool- and Substance-crusted T-shirt you've both worn for weeks now gets torn off and you stand there looking and in the root-white chest where your heart (given away to It) should be beating, in its exposed chest's center and centerless eyes is just a lightless hole, more teeth, and a beckoning taloned hand dangling something irresistible, and now you see you've been had, screwed royal, stripped and fucked and tossed to the side like some stuffed toy to lie for all time in the posture you land in. DFW, Infinite Jest
Tenho um pdf de Infinite Jest, mas todas as citações farei no Ouriquense serão dactilografadas por mim a partir do livro, como homenagem e exercício. Também faço links para um dicionário nas palavras que me parecem menos familiares para quem não tem o inglês como primeira língua.