# Borges and heaven *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 Jul 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan *24 Jul 2001, 10:34* > 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 ---- vivez sans temps mort! ---