Jorge Luis Borges
Image Attribution: Grete Stern (1904-1999) (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Grete Stern (1904-1999) (Public domain)
The first crime occurred at the Hôtel du Nord—that high prism that dominates the estuary whose waters are the colours of the desert. To this tower (…) on the third day of December came the delegate from Podolsk to the Third Talmudic Congress, Doctor Marcel Yarmolinsky, a man of grey beard and grey eyes. We shall never know whether the Hôtel du Nord pleased him: (…)
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