The Secret Miracle

Metadata

  • Media: #shortstory
    • Author: [[!Jorge Luis Borges]]

    • From: B-Ficciones

    • Status: read

    • Date: 2020-08-21

    • Tags: #historical #weirdfiction

    • Rating: ★★★☆☆

    • Idea richness: ★★☆☆☆

    • Jew set to be executed by Nazis. Dreading it. Stops time to finish work before bullets land.

    • "Then it occurred to him that reality seldom coincides with the way we envision it beforehand."

    • "...like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do."