A few lines from Borges’ “The Shape of the Sword,” with eerily similar qualities to a recently cited line from Midnight’s Children:
“Whatsoever one man does, it is as though all men did it. That is why it is not unfair that a single act of disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; that is why it is not unfair that a single Jew’s crucifixion should be enough to save it. Schopenhauer may have been right-I am other men, any man is all men, Shakespeare is somehow the wretched John Vincent Moon.” (pg. 141, Collected Fictions, from Viking)
Maybe it is time for people to take account of their actions and see what consequences they have wrought.
