“Jorge Luis Borges was possibly the greatest Spanish-language writer of the 20th century, but the Chilean author Eduardo Labarca felt the best tribute a fellow writer could pay would be to urinate on his tomb.”
Artistic act (as Labarca claims) or not (the “urine” actually came from a well-hidden water bottle), there certainly is a picture, as well as a boatload of Argentinian outrage.
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