Wednesday, January 16, 2008

an accident


"If in the following pages there is some successful verse or other, may the reader forgive me the audacity of having written it before him. We are all one; our inconsequential minds are much alike, and circumstances so influence us that it is something of an accident that you are the reader and I the writer - the unsure, ardent writer - of my verses."


- Jorge Luis Borges, from the preface to the 1923 edition of Fervor de Buenos Aires.


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