Jorge Luis Borges: There is a flavor that our time (perhaps surfeited by the clumsy imitations of professional patriots) does not usually p

There is a flavor that our time (perhaps surfeited by the clumsy imitations of p — Jorge Luis Borges

There is a flavor that our time (perhaps surfeited by the clumsy imitations of professional patriots) does not usually perceive without some suspicion: the fundamental flavor of the heroic.

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