Ravage & Monte Cristo & Belano

I just read a book
called Ravage & Son
and before that
The Count of Monte Cristo
and Ravage & Son
had me thinking
Count of Monte Cristo
even before
Ravage & Son
referenced
Count of Monte Cristo,
but even before that,
Count of Monte Cristo,
being the first time I read it,
had me thinking
Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco,
in terms of immersive world literature,
but also Belano,
always Belano,
who was the writer 
who best explored the world,
in terms I could understand,
felt as if I had done so already

even when I read him for the first time.

So while it's true that
Ravage & Son
had me thinking
Count of Monte Cristo,
even while I read
Count of Monte Cristo

I was realizing
all over again,
how Belano
right from the start,
felt like classic literature,
and that's really
how I fell in love with him.