"My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic."
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez –
While driving in 1965, Garcia Marquez was inspired to begin the writing of One Hundred Years of Solitude by a lightning flash. He immediately turned the car around and disappeared into his study for 18 months. His wife pawned the furniture to keep him supplied with paper and cigarettes. Of the latter, he required no less than six packs a day.
I have read this book. It is, truly, in itself, a sort of lightning flash.
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