Yeah, the novel is sort of a biography of his thoughts during
the younger years spent drifting around San Juan. Passionate
personality but a lot of sadness.
Voices rose and fell in the house
next door and the raucous sound of a jukebox came from a bar down
the street Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city
through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people
getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound
of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking down
of a thousand hungry clocks, the lonely sound of time passing in
the long Caribbean night. "
