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The Other Tiger ~ Jorge Luis Borges
Cunde la tarde en mi alma y reflexiono.
Que el tigre vocativo de mi verso es un tigre de símbolos y sombras, una serie de tropos literarios y memorias. Y no el tigre fatal, la aciaga joya que bajo el sol o la diversa luna, va cumpliendo en Sumatra o en Bengala su rutina de amor, de ocio y de muerte.
Al tigre de los símbolos he opuesto el verdadero, el de caliente sangre. Pero ya el hecho de nombrarlo y conjeturar su circunstancia lo hace ficción del arte, y no criatura viviente de las que andan por la tierra.
It strikes me now as evening fills my soul.
That the tiger addressed in my poem, is a shadowy beast, a tiger of symbols, scraps picked up at random out of books. And not the fated tiger, the deadly jewel, that under sun, stars or a changing moon goes on in Bengal or Sumatra fulfilling its rounds of love, indolence and death.
To the tiger of symbols I hold opposed the one that's real, the one whose blood runs hot. But by the act of giving it a name, by trying to fix the limits of its world, it becomes a fiction not a living beast, not a tiger out roaming the wilds of earth.
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