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Borges y yo
Just translated another Borges piece last night. Read a few more of his stories, too. Jorge Luis Borges, though one of my favorite writers ever (and certainly on the top three of my favorite writers to translate), was completely and utterly insane. A genius, for sure, but completely insane. It's a good thing that I'm engaged to Jorge García and not Jorge Luis Borges, primarily because the latter is dead, but additionally because his philosophical ruminations post-coitus (or any other time, for that matter) would probably cause my head to explode. If I were his significant other, however, I probably would have been in the best, uh, position (so to speak) of being his original translator. No doubt it would have been fun to take a stab at translating his work as he churned it out, before every other Spanish Lit authority on the world got to it first.
Yeah, I know, I'm a nerd - wondering what having relationships with historical figures would have been like. Just something to think about though: which historical figures would all of you been most likely to marry or otherwise have a torrid affair with?
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