If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vastI mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven peopleperhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even sevenbut still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.
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About Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges.
Themes
- Imagination — The creative power of the mind and visionary thinking