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What can I hold you with?
Jorges Luis Borges
I offer you lean streets, desperate sunsets, the moon of the jagged suburbs.
I offer you the bitterness of a man who has looked long and long at the lonely moon.
I offer you my ancestors, my dead men, the ghosts that living men have honoured in marble: my father’s father killed in the frontier of Buenos Aires, two bullets through his lungs, bearded and dead, wrapped by his soldiers in the hide of a cow; my mother’s grandfather -just twentyfour- heading a charge of three hundred men in Perú, now ghosts on vanished horses.
I offer you whatever insight my books may hold. whatever manliness or humour my life.
I offer you the loyalty of a man who has never been loyal.
I offer you that kernel of myself that I have saved somehow -the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.
I offer you the memory of a yellow rose seen at sunset, years before you were born.
I offer you explanationsof yourself, theories about yourself, authentic and surprising news of yourself.
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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7 M& Q+ q/ {# O豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯(西班牙文:Jorges Luis Borges,1899年8月24日-1986年6月14日),阿根廷诗人、小说家兼翻译家。生于布宜诺斯艾利斯一个有英国血统的律师家庭。在日内瓦上中学,在剑桥读大学。掌握英、法、德等多国文字。中学时代开始写诗。1919年赴西班牙,与极端主义派及先锋派作家过从甚密,同编文学期刊。1923年出版第一部诗集,1935年出版第一本短篇小说集,从此奠定了在阿根廷文坛上的地位。1946年因在反对庇隆的宣言上签名,被革除图书馆中的职务,派任市场家禽稽查员,但作家拒绝任职并发表公开信表示抗议。1950年至1953年间任阿根廷作家协会主席。1955年任国立图书馆馆长、布宜诺斯艾利斯大学哲学文学系教授。1950年获阿根廷国家文学奖,1961年获西班牙的福门托奖,1979年获西班牙的塞万提斯奖。