“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially… I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”

"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" ["Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote"]
The Garden of Forking Paths (1942)

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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