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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (7020)1/18/2001 8:09:25 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
A Bust of Janus Speaks
~Jorge Luis Borges

No one is open or close a single door
without homage to me, who see two ways,
doors'tutelary. Horizon lines
of stable land, unstable seas, yield to my gaze.
My two faces penetrate the past,
discern the future. Common to both I see,
drawn swords, evil, discord;
one who could have removed them let them be
and does so still. Missing are my two hands.
I am of stone fixed in place. I cannot say
for sure whether the things that I behold
are future disputes or quarrels of yesterday.
I look about my ruins: truncated column,
faces powerless to glance each other's way.