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Jul. 2 2009 - 2:07 am | 27 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Jorge Louis Borges Dream about Iran

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Everyone is talking about Iran. Why not  the great Argentine writer Jorge Louis Borges? (1899 – 1986).

“In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has neither door nor window. In the only room (with a dirt floor and shaped like a circle) there is a wooden table and a bench. In that circular cell, a man who looks like me is writing in letters I cannot understand a long poem about a man who in another circular cell is writing a poem about a man who in another circular cell . . . The process never ends and no one will be able to read what the prisoners write.’

via New Yorker.


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