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“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.
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“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.

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The American Scholar is the venerable and lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.

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