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June 01, 2015
Borges' El Aleph: A story like no other.
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space.
- Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2.
Este palacio es fábrica de los dioses, pensé primeramente. Exploré los inhabitados recintos y corregí: Los dioses que lo edificaron han muerto. Noté sus peculiaridades y dije: Los dioses que lo edificaron estaban locos. Lo djie, bien lo sé, con una incomprensible reprobación que era casi un remordimiento, con más horror intelectual que miedo sensible.
From El Aleph, a story by Argentina's Jorges Luis Borges first published in 1945 and revised from time to time through 1974. I and my two other (and more gifted) Spanish V high school classmates in southern Ohio read El Aleph in Spanish in 1970. In the story the Aleph is a point in space that subsumes all other points in space and shows you all that is occurring in the Universe.
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