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Unread 02-17-2001, 03:46 PM
Golias Golias is offline
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Besides admiring this poem, I hear in it the sound of truth. Borges must have had some such experience, or maybe he heard some soldier tell of feeling triumph and relief, perhaps on being wounded, at finding he was not a physical coward. I so surmise because when I, at age twenty-one, came under machine gun and mortar fire for the first time in Korea, I was surprised to discover, uppermost in my mind, the question: Am I scared?

Bob, if you look in, may I ask whether you and Dick considered, for sake of the rhythm, "selfsame" in the fourth line of S5? I don't have the Spanish original by me. Was it "..al mismo tiempo"?? Or perhaps "..a la vez"??

G.



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