"'How big is a man's life?' asked Ultan.
'I have no way of knowing, but isn't it larger than that?'
'You see it from the beginning, and anticipate much. I, recollecting it from its termination, know how little there has been.'"
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I love the whole section with the picture gallery, and the library, and the cryptic Borges stand-in who paraphrases the Bible and Socrates and Borges himself.
— Sep 30, 2025 08:41AM
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