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Jorge Luis Borges

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Jorge Luis Borges

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fuckbird
fuckbird posted over 2 years ago

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart; I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. (Two English Poems).

I actually was reading Siete Noches last night. Borges has a book titled El Hacedor. He once said he had taken this title from a word in English: maker, which means: poet. I love that book's epilogue:

Pocas cosas me han ocurrido y muchas he leído. Mejor dicho: pocas cosas me han ocurrido más dignas de memoria que el pensamiento de Schopenhauer o la música verbal de Inglaterra.

Un hombre se propone la tarea de dibujar el mundo. A lo largo de los años puebla un espacio con imágenes de provincias, de reinos, de montañas, de bahías, de naves, de islas, de peces, de habitaciones, de instrumentos, de astros, de caballos y de personas. Poco antes de morir, descubre que ese paciente laberinto de líneas traza la imágen de su cara.

 Awesome!

NomiLove
NomiLove posted over 2 years ago

Labyrinths is my favourite Borges book.

dubrubru
dubrubru posted over 2 years ago

Buenísimo fuckbird, gracias!  I read Ficciones, such a fantastic great book.

kingkongufulgus
kingkongufulgus posted about 1 year ago

I want to have a picnic in his mind.