Before these Ides of March come to an end, I want to share this (very) short story written by Borges, which I like a lot:

My translation under the cut:
[[MORE]]“The Plot”
For his horror to be perfect, Caesar, harassed at the foot of the statue by the impatient daggers of his friends, discovers among the faces and the steels that of Marcus Brutus, his protégé, perhaps his son, and doesn’t defend himself anymore and exclaims: “You as well, my son!” Shakespeare and Quevedo collect the pathetic cry.
Fate likes repetitions, variants, symmetries; nineteen centuries later, on the south of the province of Buenos Aires, a gaucho is attacked by other gauchos and, upon falling, recognises a godson of his and says to him with gentle rebuke and slow surprise (these words have to be heard, not read): “¡Pero, che!” They kill him and he doesn’t know that he dies for a scene to be repeated.
THE END




