Our Share of Night
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OUR SHARE OF NIGHT
A Novel
Mariana Enriquez
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By Mariana Enriquez
By Mariana Enriquez
Things We Lost in the Fire
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Our Share of Night
Epigraph
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
T. S. ELIOT, The Waste Land
I
The Claws of the Living God
January 1981
I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES, The Invention of Morel
I cried, “Come out of the shadow, king of the nails of gold!”
W. B. YEATS, The Wanderings of Oisin
There was so much light that morning and the sky was so clear, its warm blue marred by a single white smirch, more like a plume of smoke than a cloud. It was already late and he needed to go and that hot day was going to be just like the next: if it rained and he was hit with the river’s humidity and the stifling Buenos Aires heat, he would never be able to leave the city.