The Future

1. I hold my head in my
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2. hands. I know too much.
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3. I turned my knives in for
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4. my swords. My clothing used to be ostentatious.
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5. I don’t think you understand how rich I am.
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6. Not with money, but with a kind of redemption.
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7. Hold me.
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8. Let me use my swords to protect you.
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9. In The Savage Detectives, Belano
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10. (alter ego of Bolaño)
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11. received medicine from a critic with whom he dueled.
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12. They didn’t kill each other.
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13. In fact, the opposite.
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14. My quilt is rich. My swords are sharp.
    xxxMy hands: my god I can’t lift my head from my hands.