'We made a permanent division. We chose the area we wanted solely for us. We collected the right people. We imposed rules. For some they were ridiculous. We scribbled down the measurements, eye colors, heights, width, the state of teeth. My wife would have fit the pattern without problems. I, on the other hand, didn't. Imagine my life in fear surrounded by decades...

'War? What kind of war?' Jacob raised his eyebrows. It seemed as if he had been annoyed.  'Let me tell you a story. On the day you left everything was fine for some time. People got used to eating vegetables. The father managed to buy the majority of the grounds and he rented the rest that people didn't want to sell to him....

It was the same exact house. If there were wax figures imitating the lives of celebrities and stars, if there were painters responsible for copying the paintings of the greatest artist, a genius must have been hired who built the same exact house kilometers from the original.  Melquiades gasped. This had to mean that Jacob missed both of them, that he remembered those...

It was like the dream that you're having when you can do absolutely everything: you can fly, jump over skyscrapers, move at the pace of a jumbo jet. N. was madness. People walked out of their homes and apartments and were waiting for the end of the world, paying bigger and bigger tribute to little rodents running along the streets. Mice felt that...