My ten quarantine resolutions

Translation: Mariana Rimoldi-Sevellec March 25th, 2020 Dear diary: As recommended by an American self-help book from the 90’s that I found at home (“The 45-page happiness”), this is to let you know what my ten resolutions are for as long as this quarantine lasts: I I will give Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius one last chance. Maybe this time I’ll get it, or else I’ll have to convince myself that it was another one of Borges’ jokes. I will treasure the temporary discontinuation of visiting guests. I will overcome the neurological disorder that prevents me from playing simultaneously with two hands what I can successfully play with each hand, separately, on a keyboard. I’m not talking Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony here, just Three Blind Mice, by way of example. I will celebrate the fact that there are calamities that spread faster than Peronism. I will read Dante’s Divine Comedy, though I doubt it’s likely to interest me much. I won...