Abel era el mejor, pero es la pasión de Caín la que se ha perpetuado en la memoria colectiva. Abel nunca conquistó reinos.

(Extracto de una carta encontrada en una casa particular tras el bombardeo de Dresde en 1945)


Cal had never drunk before, had never needed to. B ut going to Kate’s had been no relief from pain and his revenge had been no triumph. His memory was all swirling clouds and broken pieces of sound and sight and feeling. What now was true and what was imagined he could not separate. Coming out of Kate’s he had touched his sobbing brother and Aron had cut him down with a fist like a whip.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden


Good times for a change
See, the luck I've had
Can make a good man turn bad

The Smiths, Please, please, please, let me get me what I want