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Cover: New York - Library Walk - Quote from Jorge Luis Borges’ "Compass"

Address:
2-22 E 41st St, New York, NY 10017, USA
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City:
New York, NY For all signs in New York, NY
Country:
USA For all signs in USA
Shape:
Rectangle
Material:
Metal
Used by:
New York Public Library
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Year:
1998
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Tags:
Compass rose Gilded Literature and poetry


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On the cover:
All things are words of some strange tongue, in thrall
To Someone, Something, who both day and night
Proceeds in endless gibberish to write
The history of the world. In that dark scrawl

Rome is set down, and Carthage, I. you, all,
And this my being which escapes me quite,
My anguished life that’s cryptic, recondite.
And garbled as the tongues of Babel’s fall.

Jorge Luis Borges (1921- 1986). "Compass" translated by Richard Wilbuur

[Gregg LeFevre Signature]
Photography:
2022
Ariel Rubinstein
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A plaque on the library Walk made by the artist Gregg LeFevre

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