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

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

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There are awful writers
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
is not the brand,

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

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a novel from Nabokov,
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
without Borges

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He is a Colle