"Not to have fallen
like others of my lineage,
cut down in battle.
To be in the fruitless night
he who counts the syllables."
--from Borges: A Reader ed. Monegal & Reid (1981)
"Vast minotaurian corridors of sleep" --Osbert Sitwell
bardic grimoary & notions
"Not to have fallen
like others of my lineage,
cut down in battle.
To be in the fruitless night
he who counts the syllables."
--from Borges: A Reader ed. Monegal & Reid (1981)
"Vast minotaurian corridors of sleep" --Osbert Sitwell
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