BORGES IN ENGLISH
What I wouldn’t give for the memory
of hearing Socrates
who, in the hour of the hemlock,
serenely examined the problem
of immortality,
alternating myth and reason
as the blue death kept rising
from his already cold feet.
What I wouldn’t give for the memory
of you saying that you loved me,
and not sleeping until dawn,
torn and happy.—Jorge Luis Borges, Elegy of the Impossible Memory, last lines
Me encanta leer a Borges en inglés. Está traducción es casi perfecta
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Me encanta leer a Borges en inglés. Está traducción es casi perfecta
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