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Posted on March 8, 2016March 8, 2016

“A Panoply of All Possible Futures” From “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges

Next to the Anthony Burgess quote I previously posted, this is my favourite literary passage on money    Sleepless, possessed, almost happy, I reflected that there is nothing less material than…

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