Jorge Luis Borges
Image Attribution: Grete Stern (1904-1999) (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Grete Stern (1904-1999) (Public domain)
The second crime occurred on the night of the third of January, in the most deserted and empty corner of the capital’s western suburbs. Toward dawn, one of the gendarmes who patrol these lonely places on horseback detected a man in a cape, lying prone in the shadow of an ancient paint shop. The hard visage seemed bathed in blood; a deep stab wound had split open his breast. On the wall, upon the yellow and red rhombs, there were some words written in chalk. The gendarme spelled them out…
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