“The world, unfortunately, is real, and I, unfortunately, am Borges.” - Jorge Luis Borges
After the jump, check out Borges’ last recorded words spoken in English. These illuminations on writing, book collecting, academia, life and death, were captured by George Watson during a talk at Cambridge in 1984 and were contextualized and printed in The American Scholar this past Summer.
“When I write, four or five pages may take a month, and there are blind days when I do not have a secretary. But I am a happy man. Tragic is too big a word for me.” —Jorge Luis Borges in his 80s
George Watson recalls Borges’s last words in The American Scholar’s Summer issue
