στήν σελίδα 147 κάπου προς το τέλος....

[...] people spend a third of their lives sleeping, and 25 percent of that time their eyes are moving as they experience vivid, emotional dreams. During those dreams we are often confronted with unpleasant disturbing facts about ourselves. [...]

Back then, I'd reached the age of twenty 
and I was crazy.
I had lost a country
but won a dream.
As long as I had that dream
nothing else mattered.
Not working, not praying 
not standing in morning light
alongside the romantic dogs.
And the dream lived in the void of my spirit.
A wooden bedroom,
cloaked in half-light,
deep in the lungs of the tropics.
And sometimes I'd retreat inside myself 
and visit the dream: a statue eternalized
in liquid thoughts,
a white worm writhing 
in love.
A runaway love.
A dream within another dream.
And the nightmare telling me: you will grow up.
You'll leave behind the images of pain and of the labyrinth
and you'll forget.
But back then, growing up would have been a crime.
I'm here, I said, with the romantic dogs
and here I'm going to stay.

Los perros románticos   Roberto Bolaño

....και κάπου στη σελίδα 156:

[...] Freud claimed the he had discerned the single common denominator of all great scientific revolutions: Rather surprisingly, all of them humiliate or dethrone "man" as the central figure in the cosmos.  

The first of these was the Copernician revolution, in which a geocentric or earth-centered view of the universe was replaced with the idea that earth is just a speck of dust in the cosmos.

The second was the Darwinian revolution, which holds that we are puny, hairless neotenous apes that accidentally evolved certain characteristics that have made us successful, at least temporarily. 

The third great scientific revolution was his own discovery of the unconscious and the corollary notion that the human sense of "being in charge" is illusory. He claimed that everything we do in life is governed by a cauldron of unconscious emotions, drives and motive and that what we call consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg, an elaborate post hoc rationalization of all our actions. [...]

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