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James Joyce
Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges and Robert Lima
Source: James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Winter, 1973), p. 285
Published by: University of Tulsa
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 285

was. That's all?an obscure street.

Now on the City Arms Hotel. I would not, of course, have double
checked on Mr. Conroy. That would not have been hospitable.
So?Hugh can have Thorn's; I'll take Conroy. Conroy also told me
some interesting things about his father and the Black-and-Tan
period when he was a boy, but he would not give me permission to
publish this part of it. If he had, I would, of course, have published
it, unchecked.

John Henry Raleigh

University of California, Berkeley

Jorge Luis Borges

JAMES JOYCE
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Lima

One of the days of man contains all days

of Time, from that unknowable, initial
day when time began, wherein a terrifying
God predestined all the days and agony,
to that one day when the ubiquitous river
of terrestrial time returns to source,
to the Eternal, and all that in the present,
future, past is mine today is gone.
The universal history of man exists
between the dawn and dusk. I see from night
the Hebrew's paths at my own feet,
a leveled Carthage, Glory, Hell.
Lord, grant me courage and the joy
to reach the summit of this day.

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