Macedonio Fernandez was an Argentinian metaphysicist and humorist. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1874 and died in 1952. His extremely original work, which includes “No toda es Vigilia la de los Ojos Abiertos” (1928) and “Parpeles de Recienvenido” (1930), which is distinguished for its intensity and continual inventiveness.

“It is conceived; therefore Cessation is potentially caused. We can await it. But the miraculous re-creation of love conceived at the same time by the author will perhaps battle with Cessation or triumph later after the realization of Non-Being. In truth the psychological continuum of conscience is a series of cessations and re-creations rather than a contiuum.”
From Tantalia

“In the course of time there was one day that closed the last eyes that had looked on Christ; the Battle of Junin and the love of Helen died with the death of one man. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?”
Jorge Luis Borges, 'The Witness' translated by Andrew Hurley