The reader, the writer

"The novel Amedeo was reading had reached the point where the darkest secrets of characters and plot are revealed, and you move in a familiar world, and you achieve a kind of parity, an ease between author and reader: you proceed together, and you would like to go on forever." — "The adventure of a reader" from Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver)&nbs...

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What went with Borges

"In time there was a day that extinguished the last eyes to see Christ; the battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with the death of a man. What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? The voice of Macedonio Fernández, the image of a red horse in the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas, a bar of sulphur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?" — "The Witness" by Jorge Luis Borges (translated by James. E. Irb...

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