Sunday, January 10, 2021

Hijas de la Carne


 
No lo cuento para que me comprendan, ya que he renunciado a semejante pretensión; ni para que comprendan al Príncipe Hurón. Lo cuento porque dicen los sabios que las palabras son hijas de la carne y como tales se pudren si las guarda encerradas.

I do not tell it so that you will understand me, since I have renounced such a claim; nor so that you will understand Prince Hurón. I tell it because the wise say that words are daughters of the flesh, and they spoil if you seal them up.

-- Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial

It doesn't happen very often, nowadays, that I finish a book and think, with total conviction, this one I will be reading again. But it happened with Kalpa Imperial.


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