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On page 219 in his epic final work 2666, Roberto Bolano's character Amalfitano is walking with Marco Antonio through a building, late at night. ... and set off toward the rectangle of light at the end of the hallway, which reminded Marco Antonio of the stories of people who'd been in comas or declared clinically dead and who claimed to have seen a dark tunnel with a white or dazzling brightness at the end, and sometimes these people even testifed to the presence of loved ones who had passed away, who took their hands or soothed them or urged them to turn back because the hour or micro-fraction of second in which the change took effect had not yet arrived.
"What do you think, Professor? Do people make this up, or is it real? Is it all just a dream, or is it within the realm of possibility?"
"I don't know," said Amalfitano curtly... "Well," said Marco Antonio Guerra, "if you want to know what I think, I don't believe it. People see what they want to see and what they want to see never has anything to do with the truth."J.Galligan
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