Today is the 100th birthday of Nicolás Gómez Dávila. If you don’t know his work, probably the best place to start is this page. If you don’t think you have time to take on a new author, you’re wrong: he wrote almost nothing except aphorisms – thousands of them, so you won’t run out any time soon, either. Here’s a personal favorite:
Sólo debemos leer para descubrir lo que debemos releer eternamente.
We ought to read only to discover what we ought to reread forever.
(Escolios a un Texto Implícito, 1.214)
Is Gómez Dávila worth rereading forever? You won’t know until you read some more, will you?
