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Analysis and comments on We are the time. We are the famous by Jorge Luis Borges

Comment 2 of 2, added on March 28th, 2006 at 11:20 AM.

Heraclitus was a presocratic philosopher whose work remains only in fragments and references by others. (See Plato's Theaetetus, for example). The poem refers to the quote attributed to Heraclitus that one can never step into the same river twice.

Derek from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on January 16th, 2006 at 4:19 PM.

In this Poem Jorge is alluding to which Greek myth

James from United States



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Poet: Jorge Luis Borges
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