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Friday, September 18, 2009

The Skating Rink - Opening

REMO MORAN:

The first time I saw him, it was in the Calle Bucareli

The first time I saw him, it was in the Calle Bucareli, in Mexico City, that is, back in the vague shifty territory of our adolescence, the province of hardened poets, on a night of heavy fog, which slowed the traffic and prompted conversations about that odd phenomenon, so rare in Mexico City at night, at least as far as I can remember.


Copyright 1993 by The Heirs of Roberto Bolano

Translation copyright 2009 by Chris Andrews

Originiall published in Spain as La Pista de Hielo in 1993; published by arrangement with the Heirs of Roberto Bolano and Carmen Balcells Agencia Literaria, Barcelona.

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