the dog brings a stone, 169–70
earthquake, 43–44
entry into world of poetry, 89–91
family seen as a trap, 37, 60
family strictures thrown off, 81, 83–85
father’s small penis seen, 44–46
field trip from school, 35–37
first meeting with Lihn, 114, 116
forgiveness with his family, 93–94
high jump competition, 47–48
humiliated as a Jew, 46–47
imagination chosen as a path, 69–70
imaginative techniques conceived,
70–75
indicating shoplifters to Jaime, 39–40
leaving for Paris, 125–27, 171–72
Lefevre’s Tarot readings, 239–40
lime tree hacked with ax, 88–89
Luz as his angel, 110–12
magic mirror episode, 237–39
meditative concentration deepened, 77
meetings with Parra, 100–101,
240–42
one-tooth landlady, 34–35
Parra puppet made, 96
path found in blown book page, 66
photographs burned, 49, 50
poems written, 42, 46–47, 91, 107, 384
poetry discovered, 41–42
pride of the drunkards, 38–39
puppet making, 92–93, 96, 110
reasons for birth considered, 86
Rebbe on basic rights, 60–62
self reimagined, 64–66, 77–78,
79–80, 82–85
shame about penis, 36, 46
sister’s crotch visited at night, 80
spider contemplated, 75–76
with Stella Díaz Varin, 96–109
surrealism discovered, 85
taken out of school, 38
Teatro Mímico formed, 162, 165
violin coffin, 40–41
weight gain, 40
worms emptied on parents’ bed,
81–82
See also poetic acts; theater
Zaratustra performance, 179, 181
“Shut up, you coward, they’ll say my son is a queer.”
“Tocopilla, this tremor, this scent of stones, this lament of a small town torn to shreds by the sun, these patient streets longing for a drop of water.”
“Should I suffer the anguish of the sardines or should I delight in the joy of the gulls?”
“Willpower overcomes pain.”
Something is dreaming us
“The darkness is swallowing everything.”
“Who is Don Jose?” “Don Jose is you!”
“God does not exist.”
“All you are going to be, you are already.
What you are looking for is already within you.”
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