Disclaimer: This essay fluctuates between the use of both English and Spanish, accordingly. These are also first takes/impressions on both texts. The title comes from a scene in Zambra's novel (page 61). i. love I recently finished The Argonauts and I couldn't help but think about that last paragraph. In it, Nelson talks about the potentiality of nothingness. Nothingness, as it pertains to the nature of not amounting to anything (existentially speaking), is one of the most divisive topics I have personally encountered. Since I don't want to paraphrase, I'll quote the author accordingly: "But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't know. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song" (Nelson, 143). What struck me the most was how after a hundred-and-forty-three pages, the author sort of gives up on the notion (or the possibility) of there being a straight answer to our potenti...