Borges at the hairdresser’s


-Trim the ends, Ramón.
-Do you think that there’s someone who makes hair grow, your hair for example? Can everything that is written be called literature? Is all literature fantastic? Is philosophy a branch of man?
-The branch is a branch of the tree, Ramón.
-Is the tree a branch of the earth? The man of the idea? The earth of the universe? The idea of the verb? The chaos of philosophy? Is philosophy a branch of fantastic literature?
-The ends, Ramón, just the ends.

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