borges

it's a happy kind of queer to know that i have the same birth month as the famed jorge luis borges, writer extraordinaire (okay, that was a grave understatement). it's his birthday today.

it's not the only thing i share with him. he was a translator too--though far from the crappy translations i'm required to do--and he was a force that has inspired me to sign that damn contract with abs a year ago.

a borges-as-translator trivia: at nine he translated oscar wilde's the happy prince into spanish, which was simply published under the name jorge borges. everyone assumed it was his father's work for they are jorges both, with only their second names guillermo and luis to differentiate them.