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Old March 01, 2013, 03:53 AM
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Question "A todos, tarde o temprano, Nos va entregando la vida."

Buenas tardes a todos! I have another question:

In Borges "Milonga De Calandria", the last stanza reads:

Se cuenta que una mujer
Fue y lo entregó a la partida;
A todos, tarde o temprano,
Nos va entregando la vida.

I don't know what "partida" means, the police? It has too many meanings in the dictionary.
And what "todos" is in "A todos, tarde o temprano, Nos va entregando la vida." My understanding is "Sooner or later, life will deliver all of us to something (chance? destruction?)".
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partida = departure, leaving
entregarse la vida = give one's life

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partida = group of men "deputized" to pursue a fugitive (not necessarily a formally organized party), or group of fellows sent to deal with some enemy (it means party in the sense of hunting party -partida de caza/cacería- or raiding party -grupo de asalto-)

nos va entregando la vida = figuratively: life fails us / life gives us up

todos = everybody
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partida = group of men "deputized" to pursue a fugitive (not necessarily a formally organized party), or group of fellows sent to deal with some enemy (it means party in the sense of hunting party -partida de caza/cacería- or raiding party -grupo de asalto-)
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Hmm, the first usage sounds a little bit like US English "posse" (pronounced "PAW-see", from a Latin expresion "posse comitatus"), which these days we associate with 19th-century Southwestern frontier culture.
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Hmm, the first usage sounds a little bit like US English "posse" (pronounced "PAW-see", from a Latin expresion "posse comitatus"), which these days we associate with 19th-century Southwestern frontier culture.
Exactly that. Similar primitive context in the milonga involved.

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