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[Re-read: Dec 2022] Amid the fanfare and clamour of a world that prefers score to beauty, switches sworn-to-life loyalties in no time, and confuses merchandise with love - it is only just to revisit Galeano to diagnose oneself for any of these ailments. My diagnosis is out: all is well.
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[Re-read: Sep 2020] How do I even begin?! I fear even uttering His name, for it might be sacrilegious. This man - born some five decades before I did and long gone - casts a spell on me with words that He chose several years before I even knew about His existence. Reading Him feels like lying inebriated in some captivity that you never want to get out of. All these feelings, all this high is when He simply writes about history, oppression, myths or football.
If there is one mystery that I have unravelled about His mind, it's that He understood love like no other mortal ever did. I have almost no interest in sports and yet I have been evangelising this book for five years now. This book is a rare evidence of love in a world where every expression of love is half-pretense or sheer ignorance. It doesn't matter if it's for soccer. Love is love.
After having read seven of His books this year, my yearning for Him grows even more. There are only a handful of His works that are translated in English and I am afraid that I would soon run out of the ecstacies. But He isn't just another charmer. He has put an eternal spell on my mind and it keeps pulling me back to Him and His books. He is not among us but He sure knew how to make Himself immortal.
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[Re-read: Sep 2020] How do I even begin?! I fear even uttering His name, for it might be sacrilegious. This man - born some five decades before I did and long gone - casts a spell on me with words that He chose several years before I even knew about His existence. Reading Him feels like lying inebriated in some captivity that you never want to get out of. All these feelings, all this high is when He simply writes about history, oppression, myths or football.
If there is one mystery that I have unravelled about His mind, it's that He understood love like no other mortal ever did. I have almost no interest in sports and yet I have been evangelising this book for five years now. This book is a rare evidence of love in a world where every expression of love is half-pretense or sheer ignorance. It doesn't matter if it's for soccer. Love is love.
After having read seven of His books this year, my yearning for Him grows even more. There are only a handful of His works that are translated in English and I am afraid that I would soon run out of the ecstacies. But He isn't just another charmer. He has put an eternal spell on my mind and it keeps pulling me back to Him and His books. He is not among us but He sure knew how to make Himself immortal.