Book Essay - Summer 2012
By George Watson, The American Scholar
On visits to Cambridge University late in life, Jorge Luis Borges offered revealing last thoughts about his reading and writing
Notes taken 1984 in Cambridge reveal some noteworthy insights and might enlarge the image of the great Argentinian poet:
"I have no religion and no desire for immortality."
"It is by knowing a language that you come to know poems."
"Reading is felicity, and I hate the thought it should be forced on anyone."
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