Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over …

Jorge Luis Borges
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Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings, p.52, New Directions Publishing
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