On 1977-02-01 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer of imaginative fiction who, in 1941’s short story, “The Library of Babel”, imagined the “universal library”, an archetype which has since figured in innumerable works of fiction and even been cited in connection with the combinatorial explosion of the number of possible genomic sequences and proteins in biology, sat down for a one hour conversation with William F. Buckley on the latter’s television programme, Firing Line.
During the interview, he said, “I find English a far finer language than Spanish”, and went on to explain why and reasons “I have done most of my reading in English”.
The video above is presented in portrait mode due to reasons. Here is the full Firing Line interview; the extracted passage occurs at 17:16 in the video.
