"His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb."
— Jorge Luis Borges

January 1, 1970

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"The Man on the Threshold", in The Aleph (1949); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998). Cf. "The South" in Ficciones (1944)