A woman feels all her objects are a heavy burden except for her copies of Joyce’s Ulysses. This, she realizes, is quite a decadent statement about the world.
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A fisherman visits his younger brother in the city and feels uncomfortable waiting outside his office.
He describes being drafted into the Nazi army at 16; suffering in an English POW camp; gaining prominence in the fringe theater of a war-ravaged Germany. Throughout the memoir, however, acting is mere background to a lifelong sexual odyssey, including dozens of encounters explicitly rendered here with young actresses, hookers and chambermaids.
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood take different paths: one becomes a priest, the other a gangster.
Bispo claimed to have been entrusted by seven blue angels and Christ himself with the momentous task of inventorying everything worth redeeming on the impending Day of Judgment.
There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn”t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn”t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn”t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn”t have anything. So we don”t even know who we”re talking about. It”s better that we don”t talk about him any more.