Likewise, memory might be sectioned into several categories, one of them being Otherness—just as Otherness might be considered a conjunction of various precedents, one of them being memory itself. What has contributed, both directly and indirectly, towards the construction of an individual's memory up until the present moment? How has the said memory come to fruition? Depending on one's answers to these questions, an alien condition may be found in an individual's memory which sooner or later redirections them towards a state of Otherness, eventually leading them further away from humanity and closer to monsterness.

Time and again, Cortázar would defend that no one should feel entitled to decree how an author should write or what they should write. He would too highlight the fact that the revolution should also be considered within the aesthetic of/in literature and not only on its dogmatic terms, thus making an effort towards pushing the boundaries of literature back as well. Having said this, Cortázar would, in due course, act upon the essay by accommodating both the aesthetic and sociopolitical threads into his opus.