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Adam Stephanides wrote:
This doesn't ring a bell with me, and I've read
Borges' collected stories (though it could have
just slipped my mind). The closest thing to it I can
think of is a story Borges took from Swedenborg
(it appeared in The Universal History of Infamy
and in the Borges co-edited Book of Fantasy, iirc),
which I'd mentioned on this list before. But in that
story the dead man is in hell, not heaven.
The story I was thinking of is actually a poem in In Praise of Darkness called "His End and His Beginning". I don't recall the Spanish title of the poem. Collected Fictions (with the shiny blue cover) has a prose translation.
dan
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vivez sans temps mort!