WHY WRITE
"It'll never be known how this has to be told, in the first person or in the second, using the third person plural or continually inventing modes that will serve for nothing [...].
All of a sudden I wonder why I have to tell this, but if one begins to wonder why he does all he does do [...] really the best thing is to put aside all decorum and tell it, because, after alls done, nobody is ashamed of breathing or of putting on his shoes; theyre things that you do, and when something weird happens, when you find a spider in your shoe or if you have to take a breath and feel like a broken window, then you have to tell what's happening, tell it to the guys at the office or to the doctor. Oh, doctor, every time I take a breath...Always tell it, always get rid of that tickle in the stomach that bothers you."
--Julio Cortazar, Blow-Up in Blow-Up and Other Stories
All of a sudden I wonder why I have to tell this, but if one begins to wonder why he does all he does do [...] really the best thing is to put aside all decorum and tell it, because, after alls done, nobody is ashamed of breathing or of putting on his shoes; theyre things that you do, and when something weird happens, when you find a spider in your shoe or if you have to take a breath and feel like a broken window, then you have to tell what's happening, tell it to the guys at the office or to the doctor. Oh, doctor, every time I take a breath...Always tell it, always get rid of that tickle in the stomach that bothers you."
--Julio Cortazar, Blow-Up in Blow-Up and Other Stories