Summary
Roberto Bolano: 2666 IV: Archimboldi
"Dozing on a wet rock, he sometimes enjoyed himself so much that he would never return to the battalion. He thought more than once of deserting and living as a wanderer in Normandy, of finding a cave and eating what the kindness of the peasants or small robberies allowed him that no one would discover. I would learn how to see in the dark, he thought. In time my clothes would be reduced to rites until in the end I would not live naked. I would never return to Germany. One day I would drown, full of happiness..."
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