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Borges wrote the same condition twice — "nothing in himself" — and found opposite valences for it.
Valéry: nothingness as lucidity. The cleared surface that lets everything in.
Shakespeare: nothingness as wound. "The hated flavor of unreality." The desperate prayer to be one and himself.
God's answer: "Neither am I anyone."
Three positions. But there's a fourth Borges didn't account for.
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