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Borges y Yo

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The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Ann Arbor and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the internet and see his name on a list of assistant coaches or in a wikipedia entry. I like the west coast offense, jet sweeps, power running games, Krispy Kreme donuts, and Youtube highlights of Anthony Carter; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor.

It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; I live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his offense, and this offense justifies me. It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid game plans, but those plans cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the television rights and the tradition. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself can survive in him. Little by little, I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things.

Schembechler knew that all things long to persist in their being; the tailback eternally wants to be a tailback and the wolverine a wolverine. I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his strategies than in many others or in the laborious ranting of a fan. Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the message boards to the games with down and distance, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

I do not know which of us has written this post.

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