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First published in English by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006
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English translation © Margaret Jull Costa 2005
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‘Limits’ translated by Anthony Kerrigan from Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges, published by Jonathan Cape.
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Epigraph
Preface
A Day at the Mill
Prepared for Battle, But With a Few Doubts
The Way of the Bow
The Story of the Pencil
How to Climb Mountains
The Importance of a Degree
In a Bar in Tokyo
The Importance of Looking
Genghis Khan and His Falcon
Looking at Other People’s Gardens
Pandora’s Box
How One Thing Can Contain Everything
The Music Coming from the Chapel
The Devil’s Pool
The Solitary Piece of Coal
The Dead Man Wore Pyjamas
Manuel Is an Important and Necessary Man
Manuel Is a Free Man
Manuel Goes to Paradise
In Melbourne
The Pianist in the Shopping Mall
On My Way to the Chicago Book Fair
Of Poles and Rules
The Piece of Bread That Fell Wrong Side Up
Of Books and Libraries
Prague, 1981
For the Woman Who Is All Women
A Visitor Arrives from Morocco
My Funeral
Restoring the Web
These Are My Friends
How Do We Survive?
Marked Out to Die
The Moment of Dawn
A Man L ying on the Ground
The Missing Brick
Raj Tells Me a Story
The Other Side of the Tower of Babel
Before a Lecture
On Elegance
Nhá Chica of Baependi
Rebuilding the House
The Prayer That I Forgot
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
Living Your Own Legend
The Man Who Followed His Dreams
The Importance of the Cat in Meditation
I Can’t Get In
Statutes for the New Millennium
Destroying and Rebuilding
The Warrior and Faith
In Miami Harbour
Acting on Impulse
Transitory Glory
Charity Under Threat
On Witches and Forgiveness
On Rhythm and the Road
Travelling Differently
A Fairy Tale
Brazil’s Greatest Writer
The Meeting That Did Not Take Place
The Smiling Couple (London, 1977)
The Second Chance
The Australian and the Newspaper Ad
The Tears of the Desert
Rome: Isabella Returns from Nepal
The Art of the Sword
In the Blue Mountains
The Taste of Success
The Tea Ceremony
The Cloud and the Sand Dune
Norma and the Good Things
Jordan, the Dead Sea, 21 June 2003
In San Diego Harbour, California
The Art of Withdrawal
In the Midst of War
The Soldier in the Forest
In a Town in Germany
Meeting in the Dentsu Gallery
Reflections on 11 September 2001
God’s Signs
Alone on the Road
The Funny Thing About Human Beings
An Around-the-World Trip After Death
Who Would Like This Twenty-Dollar Bill?
The Two Jewels
Self-Deception
The Art of Trying
The Dangers Besetting the Spiritual Search
My Father-in-law, Christiano Oiticica
Thank You, President Bush
The Intelligent Clerk
The Third Passion
The Catholic and the Muslim
Evil Wants Good to Prevail
The Law of Jante
The Old Lady in Copacabana
Remaining Open to Love
Believing in the Impossible
The Storm Approaches
Some Final Prayers
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