A digital form of the sadly lost fashion for copying out memorable passages from texts. I kept losing my actual book.
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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