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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | June 28, 1986 issue

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Argentine poet, short-story writer, and critic Jorge Luis Borges gave the couplet from Edmund Blunden as an instance of his feelings for Juari Peron, who had persecuted him and his family. He wanted to discuss English and Spanish as mediums of literature. He was speaking Spanish and English before he knew there were any such languages. He find the translation of the present into the future very ingenious. He talked of how reverse and obverse were the same to him, so that infinity was almost banal, He said that he always felt utterly lost when he was dreaming, which was perhaps the source of the recurrent labyrinth in his writing. He was so polite about Pablo Neruda.

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BORGES, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986; POETS; EMOTIONS; LITERATURE; MEDIUMS in literature; ENGLISH language; SPANISH language
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