Theology

»Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.«

Borges, The Theologians, in Labyrinths, edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, 1964.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Learnin' The Blues

The tables are empty, the dance floor's deserted
You play the same love song, it's the tenth time you've heard it
That's the beginning, just one of the clues
You've had your first lesson in learnin' the blues

The cigarettes you light one after another
Won't help you forget her and the way that you love her
You're only burnin' a torch you can't lose
'Cuz you're on the right track for learnin' the blues

When you're at home alone
The blues will taunt you constantly
When you're out in a crowd
The blues will haunt your memory

The nights when you don't sleep, the whole night you're crying
You can't forget her, soon you even stop trying
You'll walk the floor and wear out those new shoes
When you feel your heart break, you're learnin' the blues

When you're at home alone
The blues will taunt you constantly
When you're out in a crowd
The blues will haunt your memory

The nights when you don't sleep, the whole night you're crying
Well, you can't forget her, soon you even stop trying
You'll walk the floor and wear out your shoes
When you feel your heart break, you're learnin' the blues
You feel your heart break, you're learnin' the blues

Lady in white

Eternity

»"[…]eternity —that is to say, the immediate knowledge of all the things that will be, which are and which have been in the universe"«.

Borges, Death and The Compass, in Labyrinths, edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, 1964.

Katie Melua: Kozmic Blues (Live)

Yo soy los otros

»Lo que hace un hombre es como si lo hicieran todos los hombres. Por eso no es injusto que una desobediencia en un jardín contamine al género humano; por eso no es injusto que la crucifixión de un sólo judío baste pata salvarlo. Acaso Schopenhauer tiene razón: yo soy los otros, cualquier hombre es todos los hombres, Shakespeare es de algún modo el miserable John Vincent Moon«.

Borges, La forma de la espada, fragmento; en Artificios, 1944.

Any man is all men

»Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not injust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it. Perhaps Schopenhauer was right: I am all other men, any man is all men, Shakespeare is in some manner the miserable John Vincent Moon«.

Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, in Labyrinths, edited by Donal A. Yates and James E. Irby, 1964.