Explore "It Came Like a Slow Summer Twilight" by Jorge Luis Borges on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The Dick Cavett Show, New York, May 1980
As I found out that I was blind very gradually, there was no special affected moment. It came like a slow summer twilight. I was head librarian of the National Library and I began to find that I was ringed in by letterless books. Then my friends lost their faces. Then I found out there was nobody in the looking glass. DICK CAVETT: It's nice to have, not only such an eminent poet and writer, but a poultry inspector on the program. Could you explain - it sounds like something out of S. J. Perelman - why you were a chicken inspector?