The Route of Ice and Salt
It is what we are willing to do to feed an impulse that makes it dangerous.
José Luis Zárate • The Route of Ice and Salt
The sea sometimes needs a sacrifice: the mystery of what happened at the last moment.
José Luis Zárate • The Route of Ice and Salt
If, to feel that intimacy, it suffices that we be isolated from the rest of the crew, what then does it mean that we nine men of the Demeter have separated ourselves from the world? What does being alone in the middle of the ocean make us?
José Luis Zárate • The Route of Ice and Salt
Are you well? But one cannot inquire thus of inanimate things, of the corpses on which we travel the world.
José Luis Zárate • The Route of Ice and Salt
The voice that I offer to the memory of the trip is different. To read it is to meet another man who is yet me. A man who speaks only of facts, of details devoid of nuance.
José Luis Zárate • The Route of Ice and Salt
Our territory: boundary between flesh and world. Cold without, we men within our skin.