Once I met Borges in a crowded room with his cane over his arm, led by a friend. He was looking up and a little to the left and seemed to be listening to words from above. One does not inherit courage, he had said in an essay on blindness. His courage had grown as his eyes failed him. I shook his hand, as close as I have ever come to worshiping a human, and he quickly wiped his palm with a white handkerchief. I was asking for only a secondhand blessing but I should have known better than to touch anyone who was having a conversation with God.
- ISBN10 1322046387
- ISBN13 9781322046389
- Publish Date 1 January 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 118
- Language English