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One day among the days of the year of 1904,
in a house that still exists on Honduras Street, Evaristo Carriego read,
with a heavy heart and with eagerness,
the book of the origin of Charles De Baatz, Comte D’Artagnan.

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With eagerness,
because Dumas offered him
what others get
from Shakespeare
or Balzac
or Walt Whitman,
the flavor
of the fullness of a life.

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With heavy heart,
because he was young,
proud,
shy,
and poor,
and he believed himself
exiled from life.

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Life exists in France,
he thought,
in the clear contact of steels,
or when the armies of the Emperor steal the land,
but I have been dealt the 20th Century,
the belated 20th Century,
and this mediocre South American tenement…

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In those thoughts
Carriego was lost
when something happened.

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The strumming of a guitar working hard,...

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...the uneven line of low lying houses
seen from the window,...

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...Juan Murana
touching his broad-brimmed hat
to answer a greeting
(Juan Murana that just last night
scarred Suarez the Chilean),...

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...the moon in the patio square, ...

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...an old man with a fighting rooster,...

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...something, ...

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...anything.

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Something
that we
cannot
recover.

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Something
about which
we know its essence
but not its form.

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Something
ordinary
and trivial
and not perceived
before that moment.

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Something
that revealed
to Carriego
that the Universe
(which gives itself complete
in every instant,
in any place
and not only
in the books of Dumas)
was also there,...

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in this very present,
in Palermo,
in 1904.

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Come in, for the Gods are here as well,
said Heraclitus of Ephesus
to the people that found him
warming himself in the kitchen.

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I have suspected some times that any human life,
no matter how intricate and full it is,
contains really just one moment:

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The moment in which a man knows forever who he is.

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Since the unfathomable revelation that I have tried to intuit,
Carriego is Carriego.

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From “Evaristo Carriego” by Jorge Luis Borges.

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