According to him, the present-day visceral realists walked backward. What do you mean, backward? I asked.
“Backward, gazing at a point in the distance, but moving away from it, walking straight toward the unknown.”
I said I thought this sounded like the perfect way to walk. The truth was I had no idea what he was talking about. If you stop and think about it, it’s no way to walk at all.
– Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) from The Savage Detectives (1998)
