The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

The Aleph

by Jorge Luis Borges





O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a King of infinite space...

Hamlet, II, 2

But they will teach us that Eternity is the Standing still of the Present Time, a Nunc-stans (as the schools call it); which neither they, nor any else understand, no more than they would a Hic-stans for an Infinite greatness of Place.

Leviathan, IV, 46



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Published on May 14, 2010 21:23
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