(with apologies to the estate of j.l. borges if this is not in the public domain; i doubt borges himself would care)

Delia Elena San MarcoJorge Luis Borges ( Read more... )

borges:

we do not feel horror because we are haunted by a sphinx, we dream a sphinx in order to explain the horror that we feel.

me:

last night i visisted wilde in the tower of london. there was no inversion, only coffee and inadequacy.