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

You do not know much about us Argentinians, otherwise you should know by now that we are God's favourite people, we can't do wrong! :) Anyways, even though I am living for years now in an English speaking country I still feel like a child when I write or speak in English, unable of communicate complex thoughts (other than in my field of work)

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>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

I do not remember reading myself the text from Borges that I quote (I read his complete works, well, no... I read half of his work, as I do not have the stomach for poetry) but I found it while I needed some quote to "defend" in an English class I took when I came to live here, the teacher asked us to bring a quote of an author of our country and explain it to the class, and the class job was to challenge it. The thing is... I cannot find it anymore, at least not as coming from JLB, so I am not sure.... I like Aldous Huxley quote too!


[Update]I found it here: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/immortality?before=1327264984 and from a story I read more than once, that is how good my memory is...[/Update]

[Update2]And the quote complete is even closer to AH's[/Update]