June 7, 1942, a day like any other according to La Nación, except for a short story appearing in the Arts and Letters section that would turn this issue of the newspaper into a historic document. In sports, Argentinos Juniors beat Sportivo Alsina by 4 goals to 1 in their campaign to reach the premier league, and the entertainment pages promote Pirates of the Caribbean, in Technicolor, and a new movie starring Olivia de Havilland and Henry Fonda at $1.50 a superpullman seat. Pages 5 and 6 of the paper, in between advertisements for Eno’s “Fruit Salt” (a digestive aid selling at $0.70 per vial) and Fernet Branca (a beverage that should be brought home as one brings a friend), give an account of an earthquake without victims in Mendoza and announce that tire factories can start restoring used tires.
On the same page one could read about the casualties inflicted on the Japanese fleet at Midway and about British infantry tanks’ attacking German positions in the desert. The front page of the newspaper La Nación 1 reported on the British onslaught, which continued with a bombing campaign over the German industrial area in the Ruhr.
June 7, 1942, was a Sunday like any other amid the altered routine of the Second World War.
Used with permission of the publisher The MIT Press.įUNES AND OTHER CASES OF EXTRAORDINARY MEMORY Copyright © 2013, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reprinted from Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain, by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga.
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