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Some context: Borges was a poet. He only wrote poetry for years. Then he had an accident (or a stroke), and had to spend some week in an hospital. He feared his brain was damaged. So he didn't want to write poetry in fear he realized it was bad, and his brain was really damaged. So he decided to write a short story for the first time of his life: Pierre Menard. Thus began the carrier of the best short story writer of all time.
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NikolaiFyodorov · 225 days ago · link ·
I had never heard that about Borges before. Thanks for sharing.