Early in the Chapter which started on page 100, Mircea wrote that “… my father would stick his ear to my mother’s stomach and speak, and my skin, thin as a soap bubble, heard his garbled words, the way you hear noises in the house when you sink into a full bathtub.” By this introduction, he revealed that he was in his mother’s (Maria’s) uterus when he started seeing and hearing things. The quote is on page 114 – “… I saw my mother, young and naked, sitting on the bed, the lupus mark on her hip, her hair tossed onto her shoulders, looking at me with a welcoming smile.”

Quote is from Blinding The Left Wing, by Mircea Cartarescu.

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