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The Other

Jorge Luis Borges

"The Other" is a 1972 short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges , collected in the anthology The Book of Sand .

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“The event took place in the month of February of 1969, to the north of Boston, in Cambridge. I didn't write it down right away because my first intention was to forget it, so as not to lose my mind.”

Jorge Luis Borges book The Other

El hecho ocurrió en el mes de febrero de 1969, al norte de Boston, en Cambridge. No lo escribí inmediatamente porque mi primer propósito fue olvidarlo, para no perder la razón.
"The Other" ["El Otro"], The Book of Sand (1975)

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