Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Adios, pelota

Vamos a tomar el té a casa. Un chico, que juega al fútbol en la calle, al ver que su pelota corre debajo de mi automóvil, grita: "Adiós, pelota." Borges comenta "Adiós, pelota: toda la ternura y la poesía que hay en esa frase."

We're going home for tea. A boy, playing soccer in the street, seeing his ball run under my car, shouts: "Goodbye, ball." Borges comments: "Goodbye, ball: what tenderness and poetry there is in that phrase."

Adolfo Bioy Casares, Borges