Jorge Luis Borges once said about his craft: “Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.” Pretend that the book already exists. Pretend you already know. Pretend you already can play something by Sabicas, that you already inhaled the St. Crispin’s Day speech, that you have philosophy logic nailed to the door. Pretend you already are an expert and give a summary, a
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