Ever put some of your favorite things away, leave them and the place they are located for a long time, and then come back?
Alexander [the Great] did not die in Babylon at the age of thirty-two. After a battle he becomes lost and for many nights makes his way through the wilderness. Finally he descries the campfire of a bivouac. Yellow, slant-eyed men take him in, succour him, and finally enlist him in their army. Faithful to his lot as a soldier, he serves in long campaigns across deserts which for a part of a geography unknown to him. A day arrives on which his troop is paid off. He recognizes his own profile on a silver coin and says to himself: this is from the medal I had struck to celebrate the victory at Arbela when I was Alexander of Macedon.
-Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Graves at Deya
Alexander [the Great] did not die in Babylon at the age of thirty-two. After a battle he becomes lost and for many nights makes his way through the wilderness. Finally he descries the campfire of a bivouac. Yellow, slant-eyed men take him in, succour him, and finally enlist him in their army. Faithful to his lot as a soldier, he serves in long campaigns across deserts which for a part of a geography unknown to him. A day arrives on which his troop is paid off. He recognizes his own profile on a silver coin and says to himself: this is from the medal I had struck to celebrate the victory at Arbela when I was Alexander of Macedon.
