End OF The Year BookList

Very little time is left between now and Dec. 31st. The way it looks to me at least. So, the book list has to be about comprehensive wish list for next 90 days instead of the usual monthly targets.

1 - Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano
2 - Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri
3 - Journey To The End Of Night - Louis Ferdinand-Celine (if time permits)

Under The Volcano - pg. 215

Nevertheless the desire remained - like an echo of Yvonne's own - to find her, to find her now, to reverse their doom, it was a desire amounting almost to a resolution ... Raise your head, Geoffrey Firmin, breathe your prayer of thankfulness, act before it is too late. But the weight of a great hand seemed to be passing his head down. The desire passed. At the same time, as though a cloud had come over the sun, the aspect the roller skates, the cheerful if ironic music, the cries of the little children on their goose-necked steeds, the procession of queer poctures - all this had suddenly become transcendentally awful and tragic, distant, transmuted, as it were some final impression on the senses of what the earth was like, carried over into an obscure region of death, a gathering thunder of immedicable sorrow; the Consul needed a drink ...

Under The Volcano - pg. 213

The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, away to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was not that like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.
"What is it Goethe says about the horse?" he said. " 'Weary of liberty he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.' "