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The Garden of Forking Paths (edit) :: J. L. Borges

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On page 22 of Liddell Hart’s History of World War I you will read that an attack against the Serre-Montauban line by thirteen British divisions (supported by 1,400 artillery pieces), planned for the 24th of July, 1916, had to be postponed until the morning of the 29th. The torrential rains, Captain Liddell Hart comments, caused

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[Borges's Collected Fictions Product Details]

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ISBN: 9780140286809 Translator: Hurley, Andrew

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The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell (edit) :: J. L. Borges

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THE REMOTE CAUSE In 1517, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the [...]

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[Note to Self] Borges’ Collected Fictions [i.e., My Bible] Table of Contents

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A Universal History of Iniquity (1935) Preface to the First Edition

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Dreamtigers Introduction

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Jorge Luis Borges arrived in Austin in September, 1961. The plane that brought him flew for some hours on the edge of a terrible hurricane, the same storm that destroyed several towns along the Texas coast. The placid librarian and University of Buenos Aires professor could not fail to feel on that occasion—as he told [...]

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Everything and Nothing (edit) :: J. L. Borges

Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged , , on July 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

There was no one in him; behind his face (which even in the poor paintings of the period is unlike any other) and his words, which were copious, imaginative, and emotional, there was nothing but a little chill, a dream not dreamed by anyone. At first he thought everyone was like him, but the puzzled [...]

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Borges and I :: J. L. Borges

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It’s the other one, it’s Borges, that things happen to. I stroll about Buenos Aires and stop, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance or an iron gate. News of Borges reaches me through the mail and I see his name on an academic ballot or in a biographical dictionary. I [...]

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Blind Pew :: J. L. Borges

Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged , , on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Far from the sea and from fine war, Which love hauled with him now that they were lost, The blind old buccaneer was trudging The cloddy roads of the English countryside.

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Elegy :: J. L. Borges

Posted in Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged , , , on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Oh destiny of Borges to have sailed across the diverse seas of the world or across that single and solitary sea of diverse names,

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Ragnarök :: J. L. Borges

Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged , , , , on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx ; we dream a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel. If this is

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Inferno, I, 32 :: J. L. Borges

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From the twilight of day till the twilight of evening, a leopard, in the last years of the thirteenth century, would see some wooden planks, some vertical iron bars, men and women who changed, a wall and perhaps a stone gutter filled with dry leaves. He did not know, could not know, that he longed [...]

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The Library of Babel :: J. L. Borges

Posted in Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged , , , on July 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters . . . The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings. From [...]

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The Aleph (edit) :: J. L. Borges

Posted in Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged , , , , , on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a King of infinite space… Hamlet, II, 2 But they will teach us that Eternity is the Standing still of the Present Time, a Nunc-stans (as the schools call it); which neither they, nor any else understand, no more than they would a [...]

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How to get any woman into bed

Posted in Miscellaneous, Poetry, tagged , , , on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Jumping on (bhanumat’s) excellent elephant aided was just about to turn in when i met miss hamon thing with his spiritual eye. He then beheld the fastened together with slender tapes, so that you that this policy of garrisoning the forts that krishna of great

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Serial Killer Loves To Party: free tickets to Mariah Carey concert! :: Free Ideas :: Spammer King

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