Borges is over for dinner. We're reading poems for the contest.
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King James Bible
Genesis, Chp. III |
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Adam and Eve
Abrecht Durer (1507)
Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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BORGES: "Often a minor event leads to severe consequences. A perfect example of this is in the book of
Genesis, where the whole human race is condemned forever after an ordinary couple eats the fruit of the forbidden tree. Fate is always unkind: it punishes us in a moment of distraction---the chance of going right rather than left---with death. On a dare, let's say, a boy mounts a stallion, he falls and lands with such bad luck that something severs in his spine and he is left paralyzed for the rest of his life."
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