>>When I was a kid I went through the typical American boyhood phase of collecting baseball cards. I left a big box of them behind at my mom's house when I left for college. Years later I read that some of them were worth serious money. Sandy Koufax, Willie Mays, Nolan Ryan rookie card, cards like those. I gave her a call. Of course she had pitched them.
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>Ouch! That reminds me that last time my mom was here I was trying to convince her to bring to my needy hands a booklet that belonged to her aunt or something, this aunt was an opera enthusiast and assisted regularly to the Teatro Colón and in her booklet she has the autograph of very famous opera singers, I do not remember the names, but very famous singers from the beginning of the 20th century, I am sure it must be worth something for someone other than me so I could oblige! :)

Are all Argentinians good writers? <g> And not even your native language. Bonus points for quoting both Donald Knuth and Jorge Luis Borges.

I don't know the provenance of your first quotation but it is close to where The Doors took their name. "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would reveal itself to man as it is, infinite." -- Aldous Huxley