Distant Star - pg. 94

The reports of Carlos Wieder's activities from that night on are vague and contradictory. His shadowy figure makes a number of brief appearances in the shifting anthology of Chilean literature. According to some rumor, he was expelled from the air force at a secret court martial, held at night, which he attended in full-dress uniform, although his die-hard fans prefer to imagine him wearing a black greatcoat and a monocle, smoking a long pipe made from an elephant's tusk. The most unbalanced minds of his generation claim to have seen him wandering around Santiago, Valpraiso and Concepcion, working at a variety of jobs and participating in strange artistic projects. He changed his name. He was associated with various ephemeral literary magazines, to which he contributed proposals for happenings that never happened unless (and it hardly bears thinking about) he organized them in secret.