by Marcelo Medone<\/p>\n
In 1975, Borges confessed in a story to having received an infinite page book from a Scottish bible dealer who had obtained it “in the farthest regions of Bikaner”, trading it in exchange for several books that he had treasured as a good bibliophile.<\/p>\n
This book, called by Borges the Book of Sand<\/em>, obsessed him in such a way that it deprived him of rest for long nights, becoming a cursed object.<\/p>\n The great writer got rid of it in a masterful way, “losing it on a musty shelf in the National Library, among 900,000 other books,” in the same way that a sardine would be lost in a school of its own species, a camel in a caravan or a pine needle in a pine forest.<\/p>\n This story impressed me vividly when I was a teenager studying Literature with ambitions to be a writer. I judged that the story was probably true, so I began prowling the National Library of Buenos Aires, looking for clues to its whereabouts.<\/p>\n Before long, I got a night job as a cleaner at the Library, without telling anyone of my covert purpose to find the famous book. I repeatedly turned down the promotions offered to me in my job, the ones that would have diverted me from my mission.<\/p>\n I spent decades going through the repositories of forgotten books, without success.<\/p>\n Until now, when I finally have in my old hands the infinite book that once belonged to Jorge Luis Borges.<\/p>\n I hope I don’t lose my sanity.<\/p>\n God help me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Marcelo Medone In 1975, Borges confessed in a story to having received an infinite page book from a Scottish bible dealer who had obtained it “in the farthest regions of Bikaner”, trading it in exchange for several books that he had treasured as a good bibliophile. This book, called by Borges the Book of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,77],"tags":[1567,1123,1574],"class_list":["post-14250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-72","category-english","tag-egophobia-72","tag-english","tag-marcelo-medone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3HQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14251,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions\/14251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}