I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
— Jorge Luis Borges Modern

Short fiction, magical realism

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From "The Fearful Sphere of Pascal"

Date / Period

1951

Category

Strange & Unusual

Source

https://archive.org/details/otheinquisitions00borg

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