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Jorge Luis Borges

  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    He is an imagist of cultural fugues and choreographies, of the faltering, lamentable Dance of Life. One cinquepace is not the same as another, but there is no need to dance until one drops in the marathon. In literature it is only necessary to outline the steps. Let the people dance!
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    Borges is an exegete, a commentator on the texts, on the Books. And exegesis is the mother of heresy. But Borges is not naturally a heresiarch. He is merely a vindicator of heresies. And heresies, as Miguel de Unamuno pointed out, are necessary for the philosophical, and even more, for the theological health of a culture
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    narrator who omitted or corrupted what happened and who ran into various contradictions, so that only a handful of readers, a very small handful, would be able to decipher the horrible or banal reality behind the novel
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    I supposed that this undocumented country and its anonymous heresiarch had been deliberately invented by Bioy out of modesty, to substantiate a phrase
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    , and is a work of Johann Valentin Andreä. The
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    the thirteenth volume of De Quincey's Writings
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    described the imaginary community of Rosae Crucis—the community which was later founded by others in imitation of the one he had preconceived
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    Spinoza attributes to the inexhaustibly divine in man the qualities of extension and of thinking
  • R Güemeshas quoted2 years ago
    One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory.2 Another school declares that the whole of time has already happened and that our life is a vague memory or dim reflection, doubtless false and fragmented, of an irrevocable process.
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