There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of sa…

Jorge Luis Borges
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1962). Ficciones, p.162, Grove Press
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There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1962). Ficciones, p.162, Grove Press

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