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Mar. 28th, 2010 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionBorges interviewed:
We saw the Russian Revolution as a sort of beginning for peace among all men. My father was an anarchist, a Spencerian, a reader of The Man Versus the State, and I recall that in one of the long summer vacations we took in Montevideo, my father told me to take a good look at many things because those things were going to disappear and I would be able to tell my children or grandchildren--I haven't had any children or grandchildren--that I had seen those things. He told me to look at military barracks, flags, maps having different colors for the different countries, butcher shops, churches, priests, custom houses, because all of those things were going to disappear when the world was one and differences were forgotten. Up until now the prophecy hasn't come true, but I hope it will come true some day.
Unrelated sentence from later in the same book:
I believe no one thinks his own behavior is exemplary.
We saw the Russian Revolution as a sort of beginning for peace among all men. My father was an anarchist, a Spencerian, a reader of The Man Versus the State, and I recall that in one of the long summer vacations we took in Montevideo, my father told me to take a good look at many things because those things were going to disappear and I would be able to tell my children or grandchildren--I haven't had any children or grandchildren--that I had seen those things. He told me to look at military barracks, flags, maps having different colors for the different countries, butcher shops, churches, priests, custom houses, because all of those things were going to disappear when the world was one and differences were forgotten. Up until now the prophecy hasn't come true, but I hope it will come true some day.
Unrelated sentence from later in the same book:
I believe no one thinks his own behavior is exemplary.
