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It doesn't make sense talk about Borges[br]and his influence

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because that's not what makes him[br]a good writer.

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There are awful writers[br]with a great influence

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sometimes they even influence us

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and we say bad but good.

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The influence of a writer[br]is not the brand,

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What it is a brand is that[br]he invented a way, for example,

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a novel from Nabokov,[br]that is the best he wrote,

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its called "Pale Fire" (Fuego Palido)

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it wouildnt have been wirtten[br]without Borges

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He is a Colle