The stars drew light across the night sky in that little mountain village, and the silence and the cold made the darkness vanish away. It was - I don't know how to explain it - as if everything solid melted away into the ether, eliminating all individualtiy and absorbing us, rigid, into the immense darkness. Not a single cloud to lend perspective to the space blocked any portion of the starry sky.

The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America (ed. Ocean Press, 2013) - ISBN: 9781921700910