terminando de releer Un caso acabado de Graham Greene, el mejor escritor “pez fuera del agua”, el mejor creador de personajes que han huido o terminado en un sitio donde, por lo general, hace mucho, mucho calor.

…In an unfamiliar region it is always necessary for the stranger to begin at once to construct the familiar, with a photograph perhaps or a row of books if they are that he has brought with him from the past. Querry had no photographs and no books except his diary… and so from the first morning he set himself to build a routine, the familiar within the unfamiliar. It was the condition of survival…

…and he lay on his back, staring up at where the stars ought to have been visible, the gauze of the mosquito-net obscured them. As usual there was no silence. Silence belonged to the cities…

…self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even th self…