current reading

On time and continuity

Los hechos graves están fuera del tiempo, ya porque en ellos el pasado inmediato queda como tronchado del porvenir, ya porque no parecen consecutivas las partes que los forman.

Borges (Emma Zunz)

(My translation: Serious things are disconnected/free of from time, either because the immediate past stays separate from the future, or because the events that they form do not seem to follow from each other)