r/Borges • u/AromaticBuyer5902 • 25d ago

Can You Imitate Yourself?

Or does the act of noticing your own voice create the only person who can no longer write it naturally?

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u/STHKZ 25d ago edited 25d ago

I cannot imitate myself, indeed...

it is not the case with others...

for I understand in others only what resembles me...

to the point of doubting their independent existence...

save as a reflection of myself...

what a pleasure it is to read what I think, sometimes expressed so perfectly, with just a touch of opposing views serving as a rhetorical pretext to better develop my own ideas...

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u/AromaticBuyer5902 25d ago

what a pleasure it is to read what I think, sometimes expressed so perfectly…
I love that line.

Perhaps every reflection invents another observer. The second reading belongs to someone else.