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Unread 04-24-2024, 08:17 PM
Orwn Acra Orwn Acra is offline
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So my life escapes me and I lose everything to oblivion or the other.
I don't know which has written this page.


A weird thing about the original last line is that it implies a third presence (which of the two rather than which of us). Irby, whose translations are close to my heart, writes "which of us" and Hurley, whom I think a rather terrible prose stylist, writes something similar.

Unless "cuál de los dos" refers not to Borges1 and Borges2 but to the other and oblivion, the objects from the previous sentence.
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