“Something infinite has been lost”

“Diodors Siculus relates the story of a broken and scattered god; who of us has never felt, while walking through the twilight or writing a date from his past, that something infinite has been lost?”

– Jorge Luis Borges, “Paradiso, XXXI, 108”

Borges in Paris

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