Faso, ¿tenés? is volume 7 of the series On Being, and the second bilingual book of the series. It spans year two of the protagonist Ana’s adventures in South America and her trip back home to the States.

On Being is a psychological, metaphysical, self-referential, astrological, diary case history, serving as a qualitative, longitudinal research project investigating what it means to be. Basically, I, J.

Guzmán (as the protagonist Ana) psychoanalyze myself throughout Time, document meticulously everything that happens to me and how I feel about it, and connect it to astrological theories and timing techniques. If astrology truly works, if it can be considered a legitimate system with rules and internal coherence, you’d have to see it working in relation to somebody’s real-life, autobiographical narrative.

I named this volume Faso, ¿tenés? porque por el año entero estaba buscando faso, y la mayoría del tiempo solo pude encontrar el paraguayo de mierda que me daba un dolor de cabeza. Más que una persona me dijo que la gente hace pis en las plantas en la creación del paraguayo, e incluso agregan cosas aún peores.

I was so immersed in that almost-drug-addiction vibe, where all you can think about is how much you want to smoke. I wouldn’t necessarily consider an addiction to marijuana a legitimate addiction, at least in my own case, sino un deseo fuerte de fumar, una fijación intensa.

¡Quería quemar tanto! Quería estar volada para poder analizar mi conciencia de forma diferente, pero es re difícil encontrar flores reales en sudamérica, a menos que conozcas a las personas correctas. It was all I could think about.

¡Ya! Eso es todo. Now you can open the book.

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