Sublime

you are gripped by the fear of having also passed over to “the other side” and of having lost that privileged relationship with books which is peculiar to the reader: the ability to consider what is written as something finished and definitive, to which there is nothing to be added, from which there is nothing to be removed.

and

Para confrontar os aspectos do fantástico “visionário” com aqueles que eu poderia chamar de fantástico “mental” ou “abstrato” ou “psicológico” ou “cotidiano”, pensei num primeiro momento em escolher dois contos representativos das duas vertentes para cada autor.

I am sure this Lotaria (that is her name) has read them conscientiously, but I believe she has read them only to find in them what she was already convinced of before reading them.

niente della tua vita, Nicola, figurati della mia cosa puoi

a shapeless little heap of pretentious nonsense.’

of me, but if I say so, understandable.