“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”

“You'd think the man could have called her once, she thought, scowling at her boots. Sent a telegram, a damn smoke signal.”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“All truths are easy to understand once they have been discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town.”

“On February 14, I received a telegram from Buenos Aires urging me to return home immediately; my father was "not at all well." God forgive me, but the prestige of being the recipient of an urgent telegram, the desire to communicate to all of Fray Bentos the contradiction between the negative form of the news and the absoluteness of the adverbial phrase, the temptation to dramatize my grief by feigning a virile stoicism-all this perhaps distracted me from any possibility of real pain.”