"What are we? You ask me in a week or a year,
Ants, bees, wrong numbers; in a stew of accidental corruption?
We are humans, almost birds,
Overt and secret heroes. "
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Comprehensive British and American Marvel DC, original female protagonist, male protagonist Daredevil Matt Murdock. The text is a random excerpt from Bolaño's "Godzilla in Mexico."
It is somewhat related to the other two articles in the column, "Hiking"/"Stellar Hour", but it doesn't matter if you haven't read those two articles.