Modern

Jorge Luis Borges

1899–1986

Librarian of labyrinths

Time is the substance I am made of is from A New Refutation of Time, an essay that tries to doubt time and then admits the writer’s grief will not allow it. He went blind and kept composing in his head. The libraries in the stories are not metaphors only.

In the canon

  1. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.A New Refutation of Time

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