“The truth is that the writer of short pieces wants nothing more in this world than to write long texts, interminably long texts in which the imagination does not have to work, in which facts, things, animals and men meet, seek each other out, exist, live together, love, or shed their blood freely without being subjected to the semicolon or the period.
That period, which at this very moment has been imposed upon me by something stronger than myself, something I both respect and despise.”
- Augusto Monterroso, ‘Brevity’ from Complete Works and Other Stories translated by Edith Grossman.
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