Wednesday 17 October 2012

Fleetingly I thought of the Mongolian horsemen

Fleetingly I thought of the Mongolian horsemen who tried to make of China an infinite pasture ground and then grew old in the cities they had longed to destroy

J.L. Borges, 'Story of the warrior and the captive' in Labyrinths (1962), 161
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