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Below is comedian Julio Torress list.
There was a lot of art books and atlases in my home when I grew up.
It doesnt have a beginning, middle, and an end its infinite.
For someone in a very conservative Catholic country, that felt so punk.
Also, its very short.
Reading this feels like going down a rapid, the way it flows.
Its so freed of expectations in a way that makes it very refreshing.
Its almost like jazz, full of nooks and crannies, sort of unpredictable but beautiful.
Im currently working through this, one story at a time.
Theres a whole wave of Latin American fiction that I didnt encounter until later in life.
This felt like watching the movieGhost World; theres something very exciting and fun about the quotidian in it.
It was published in the early 1900s and chronicles the authors attempt at making a perpetual motion machine.
Its a story thats riddled with failure, but stubbornly optimistic in a way I can relate to.
There is also something lovely and dreamy and seductive about it.
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