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‘But the battle did not begin. The sun peacefully rose and without haste set again into the quivering reeds. The men and the arms watched, and waited. The noontimes were more powerful than they and the siestas were infinite.’

‘He went out for a walk in the decorous streets of London, in search of inspiration. It was just evening; Bogle wandered about until a honey colored moon was mirrored in the rectangular waters of the public fountains. And then he was visited by his god.’

‘The learned doctors of the Great Vehicle teach us that the essential characteristic of the universe is its emptiness.’ J. L. B.

‘I sometimes think that good readers are poets as singular, and as awesome, as great authors themselves. Reading, meanwhile, is an activity subsequent to writing — more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.’ J. L. B.

Buenos Aires May 27, 1935