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🦋 The position of the reader
Hladik's first emotion was simple terror. He reflected that he wouldn't have quailed at being hanged, or decapitated, or having his throat slit, but being shot by a firing squad was unbearable. In vain he told himself a thousand times that the pure and universal act of dying was what ought to strike fear, not the concrete circumstances of it, and yet Hladik never wearied of picturing to himself those circumstances.
"The Secret Miracle"
posted evening of Friday, March 19th, 2010 ➳ More posts about Ficciones ➳ More posts about Short Stories ➳ More posts about Jorge Luis Borges ➳ More posts about Readings ➳ More posts about Collected Fictions
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