The Just by Jorge Luis Borges A man who cultivates his garden, as Voltaire wished. He who is grateful for the existence of music. He who takes pleasure in tracing an etymology. Two workmen playing, in a café in the South, a silent game of chess. The potter, contemplating a color and a form. The typographer who sets this page well, although it may not please him. A woman and a man, who read the last tercets aof a certain canto. He who strokes a sleeping animal. He who justifies, or wishes to, a wrong done him. He who is grateful for the existence of a Stevenson. He who prefers others to be right. These people, unaware, are saving the world. Translated by Alastair Reid from: “Insomnia”, Six Poems by Jorge Luis Borges
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 08:52:39 +0000
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