"The Other Duel"

In Jorge Luis Borges "The Other Duel," there are many lines that stuck out to me as the reader which helped me to better understand the text and what message the narrator was trying to convey. The narrator told of the long standing hatred between the two main characters, Cardoso and Silviera and stated, "Perhaps their only possession in their coarse primitive lives was their hatred, and therefore they saved it and stored it up" (Borges 141). This sentence in the story stood out after I finished reading and I could distinctly remember that one line. The statement opened my eyes to not only hatred between these two men, but opened my eyes up to the hatred we humans feel all the time towards others for reasons that seem so silly when put into perspective. Cardoso and Silviera spent their whole lives hating each other, for reasons which no one seems to be able to figure out. To these two men, it seemed that the hatred they felt was all they had, and they lived every day trying to get ahead of the other in some way. If these men had been real, would they be able to explain there hatred towards one another?