I'm so jealous that you discovered all this stuff when you were so young. I didn't even read Garcia Marquez until I was nineteen, and back when you were reading this stuff I was probably still on Piers Anthony.

Since you've read this, can I ask what your take on the "my paredros" figure is? I'm reading it as sort of a moveable, collective identity--sort of a group familiar or something. I'm not finding anything helpful about it online.