Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Borges y yo and I . . .

Después reflexioné que todas las cosas le suceden a uno precisamente, precisamente ahora. Siglos de siglos y solo en el presente ocurren los hechos; inumerables hombres en el aire, en la tierra y el mar, y todo lo que realmente pasa me pasa a mí...”

(Jorge Luis Borges, “El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan.”)


“Then I reflected that all things happen to oneself, and happen precisely, precisely now. Century follows century, yet events occur only in the present; countless men in the air, on the land and sea, yet everything that truly happens, happens to me. . . .”

(Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Trans. Andrew Hurley)

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