From Guillermo Rosales

"In my dream, although men tied me up as a punishment, I had great power over the world's animals. 'Octopi!' I screamed. 'Bring me a shell engraved with the Statue of Liberty.' And the large cartilaginous octopi toiled with their tentacles to find that shell among the millions and million of shells in the sea. Then they found it and struggled to bring it up to the rock where I was captive and where they oh so humbly and respectfully handed it over to me. I looked at the shell, let out a peal of laughter, and threw it scornfully into the great void. The octopi all shed large, crystalline tears at my cruelty. But I laughed at their weeping, and roared, 'Bring me another one just like it!'"

—The Halfway House, 1987