Chapter 104

"Life, as a comment on something else we don´t reach, and which is there within reach of the jump that we don’t do.

Life, a ballet on a historic theme, a story on an experienced event, an experienced event on a real event.

Life, picture of the number, possession within darkness (woman, monster?), life, procurer of the death, splendid deck, tarot of forgotten keys that some gouty hands lower to a sad solitaire."
-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch.