Emma dropped the letter. The first thing she felt was a sinking in her stomach and a trembling in her knees; then, a sense of blind guilt, of unreality, of cold, of fear; then, a desire for this day to be past. Then immediately she realized that such a wish was pointless, for her father's death was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening, endlessly, forever after.
Jorge Luis BorgesAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet, Writer
- Nationality: argentinian
- Born: August 24, 1899
- Died: June 14, 1986
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