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From: Dan <meliza@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> Subject: (urth) Borges and heaven Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:34:43 Adam Stephanides wrote: > This doesn't ring a bell with me, and I've read > Borges' collected stories (though it could have > just slipped my mind). The closest thing to it I can > think of is a story Borges took from Swedenborg > (it appeared in The Universal History of Infamy > and in the Borges co-edited Book of Fantasy, iirc), > which I'd mentioned on this list before. But in that > story the dead man is in hell, not heaven. The story I was thinking of is actually a poem in _In Praise of Darkness_ called "His End and His Beginning". I don't recall the Spanish title of the poem. _Collected Fictions_ (with the shiny blue cover) has a prose translation. dan ---- vivez sans temps mort! *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/