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(The end of the story can only be told in metaphors, since it takes place in the kingdom of heaven, where time does not exist. One might say that Heathcliff spoke with God and found that God takes so little interest in moralities of heaven and hell. That, however, would be to impute confusion to the divine intelligence. It is more correct to say that in paradise, Heathcliff discovered that in the eyes of the unfathomable deity, he and Catherine (the lover and beloved) were one and many persons)9
“Both were transported by some secret impulse, an impulse deeper than reason, and both embraced that impulse that they would not have been able to explain. It may be that the stories I have told are one and the same story. The obverses and reverse of this coin, are, in the eyes of God, identical.”10
9 Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. “The Theologians” 3⁄4 slightly modified. NY, USA: The Penguin Group. Viking. 1998 207
10 Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. “The Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden”. NY, USA: The Penguin Group. Viking. 1998. 211
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