Shakespeare, Cervantes

Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory - S

I invoke the oldest magic of storytelling.

I am a scribe and the stories don’t belong to me.

It is a sentiment that sits at odds with supreme individualism and the notion of agency.

We are born, we die, for a while we live.

Bolaño put it this way. No matter how great, no matter how important, with time both Shakespeare and Cervantes will also disappear.

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