“On February 14, I received a telegram from Buenos Aires telling me to return immediately, for my father was ‘in no way well.’ God forgive me, but the prestige of being the recipient of an urgent telegram, the desire to point out to all of Fray Bentos the contradiction between the negative form of the news and the positive adverb, the temptations to dramatize my sorrow as a feigned a virile stoicism, all distracted me from the possibility of anguish.” ~Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes the Memorius”
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