NP but 2666 again, the play

[Perry Noid]

Coming to Chicago in a matter of weeks https://www.goodmantheatre.org/2666

For anyone near the area and interested. I'm very much interested but I
live on the west coast, unfortunately. Apparently was financed by a
Powerball lottery winner, the hydra of chance strikes back, and interesting
that a book based on a fictionalized "murder capital" of Juarez will be
performed as a play in another one.

I don't know if this a new adaptation or a translation of the Spanish play.

I am trying to read *One Hundred Years of Solitude *but I keep going back
to *2666, *it's got a hold on me. For Jemmy, if you're reading, I think you
were curious to know if the Part About the Crimes had a hypnotic effect as
you progress, I do not get that feeling at all when I read it. My hunch is
that Bolaño wants the reader to be like Lalo Cura, the (I think) youngest
cop on the force, autodidact detective, who might be my favorite character,
and get a sense of what it must be like poring over police reports that
get more piled on as you go, how overwhelming it is and the institutional
hurdles you face. I don't recall there being any actual depictions of the
murders, just the reports of bodies turned up and what can be gleaned from
them, if identified then there are a few more details from victims
acquaintances. Some victims directly linked though you wouldn't know that
unless you remember the names or go back and compare details, locations
etc.

But the reason I don't get numb or hypnotized following along is the
structure of it. In the cracks between the crimes are the lives of the
detectives, journalists, Florina Almada the psychic on TV, the
congresswoman and her own investigation. It is well worth the time,
especially if you liked the book up until that point since the stories in
this chapter are not to be missed, nor is the final chapter on Archimboldi.
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