and the sentence isn’t even finished, and we don’t even get to find out who won

davidquigg:

From Roberto Bolaño’s 2666:

To the south they discovered rail lines and slum soccer fields surrounded by shacks, and they watched a match, without getting out of the car, between a team of the terminally ill and a team of the starving to death …

This book was painful. And not in a good way.

(via andrewgreene)

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