June 5, 2019 Teju Cole Roberto Bolaño
“(…) jet lag, which is to chronological displacement as vertigo is to spatial displacement. Finally we had figured out how to move across time faster than time moves across us.”
–Teju Cole
“I had practically no friends and all I did was write and go for long walks. starting at seven in the evening, just after getting up, with a feeling like jet lag: an odd sensation of fragility, of being there and not there, somehow distant from my surroundings.”
–Roberto Bolaño