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blind persons: Literary figures
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(1987) Jorge L Borges (1899-1986)
Argentine writer, essayist, and short-story writer. His tales of fantsy and dreamworlds are classics of the 20th century world literature. He became blind as a result of a hereditary condition which he inherited from his father ( the cause is not known). The fragment of poem on the stamp is taken from Poem of the Don and can be translated as ' I always imagined paradise to be a kind of library'. He started to go blind at the age of 40 because of a hereditary retina condition which he inherited from his father but the detail of this condition is not known. |
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