Jorge Luis Borges told an interviewer for /The Paris Review/ that a writer "should be judged by the enjoyment he gives and by the emotions one gets. As to ideas, It's not very important whether a writer has some political opinion or other because a work will come through despite them, as in the case of Kipling's KIM. Consider the idea of the empire of the English. In KIM the characters one really is fond of are not the English, but many of the Indians, the Mussulmans. I think they're nicer people. And that's because Kipling thought them--no, no, not because he thought them nicer--because he felt them nicer."
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