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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Jorge Luis Borges and Colm Tóibín in 1982.

Black and white photo of Jorge Luis Borges, an elderly, blind man with a stick, linking to the supporting arm of a remarkably hirsute - head AND chin - young Colm Tóibín, whose deep set eyes are almost entirely in shadow. In the photo, Borges would be around 83 and Tóibín around 27.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

That is wonderful!

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Patrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Ha, just been reading him describing his summer job in Tramore, Co Waterford in 74. Sure it's a long way from Tramore to hobnobbing with Borges

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rmoffitt.bsky.social @rmoffitt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

CT looking like an 80s Greek synthpop maestro

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Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Incredible

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Paddy McCully @paddymccully.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I think that’s the infamous meeting between Borges and Geordie Best.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

okay, so in 1982 Borges was 83 and Tóibín was 27. Which means we need another photo taken in 2038 with Tóibín on the left and... which writer, born in 2011, on the right?

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Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Well now, two icons!

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Frank Wynne @terribleman.com · 01/05/2025

WTAF?!?

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

CT looking like a 1970s Martin Scorsese there.

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Ross @flicksfan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I'll see you and raise you Pope Francis www.latinobookreview.com/pope-francis...

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Pope Francis and Borges: An Improbable Literary Collaboration | Latino Book Review

In the late spring of 1965, in a modest classroom in Santa Fe, Argentina, a young Jesuit named Jorge Mario Bergoglio did something quietly radical. He invited Jorge Luis Borges—then the most celebrate...

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Fin @fintasm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is the photo I didn’t know existed but somehow I always wanted to see

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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

CT looks like the sort of person who would hog a seminar in that picture.

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Patrick Cargill and Joe Wilkinson, surely?

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