How would you like paradise to look like
Written by DJ Bwakali“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine writer who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and died in Geneva Switzerland.
Evidently, his deep love for books (reading and writing them) drove him to imagine paradise as a kind of library. What about you? If you could help in designing paradise, what would you ensure was there?
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