A review by timhoiland
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro

5.0

“After a tragedy, language is like the mixed-up alphabet of a typewriter: it first appears as disorder, but little by little it takes shape in order to give meaning to something devoid of meaning. We speak in order to understand something that challenges understanding. Exercising more superstition than certainty, we think that if we can say something, we can also overcome something. Words heal.”