I like Borges' poetry, and random musings about timelessness

[__marcelo]

It rains

In what yesterday, in what courtyards of Carthage,
falls also this rain?

I always find this very small poem weirdly evocative, particularly when it rains. There's something timeless about it: wherever and whenever it rains, it is the same rain. This sort of empirical Platonism is one of Borges' peculiar threads; off the top of my head,

Comments

[browngirl]

This is such a gorgeous essay. *contemplates*

[__marcelo]

Thank you!

[philippos42]

Or, one could say, people are sloppy when it comes to imaginative treatments of history because they care about only pieces of it.

But your way sounds nicer.

[__marcelo]

That said, your way is more generically true.