In a stable that stands almost within the shadow of the new stone church a gray-eyed, gray-bearded man, stretched out amid the odors of the animals, humbly seeks death as one seeks for sleep. The day, faithful to vast secret laws, little by little shifts and mingles the shadows in the humble nook. Outside are [...]
Archive for September, 2008
The Witness :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story, The Maker on September 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Yellow Rose :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story, The Maker on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Neither that afternoon nor the next did the illustrious Giambattista Marino die, he whom the unanimous mouths of Fame — to use an image dear to him — proclaimed as the new Homer and the new Dante. But still, the noiseless fact that took place then was in reality the last event of his life. [...]
A Problem :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story, The Maker on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let us imagine that in Toledo someone finds a paper with an Arabic text and that the paleographers declare the handwriting belongs to that same Cide Hamete Benengeli from whom Cervantes took his Don Quixote. In the text we read that the hero — who, as the story goes, rambled about Spain armed with a [...]
Dead Men’s Dialogue :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story, The Maker on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He arrived from southern England early one winter morning in 1877. Ruddy, athletic, and Obese as he was, almost everyone inevitably thought he was English, and to tell the truth he was remarkably like the archetypal John Bull. He wore a top hat and a strange wool cape with an opening in the middle. A [...]
The Sham :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story, The Maker on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was one day in July, 1952, when the mourner appeared in that little town in the Chaco. He was tall, thin, Indian-like, with the inexpressive face of a mask or a dullard. People treated him with deference, not for himself but rather for the person he represented or had already become. He chose a [...]
The Draped Mirrors :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story, The Maker on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Islam asserts that on the unappealable day of judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment. As a child, [...]
The Other Tiger :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, El Hacedor, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Poetry, The Maker, tiger on September 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
And the craft that createth a semblance MORRIS: SIGURD THE VOLSUNG (1876) I think of a tiger. The gloom here makes The vast and busy Library seem lofty And pushes the shelves back; Strong, innocent, covered with blood and new, It will move through its forest and its morning And will print its tracks on [...]
The Vedic Period
Posted in Poetry, tagged indian philosophy, maitri upanisad, Poetry, religion, Upanisads on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He, assuredly, awakes this world, which is a mass of thought. It is thought by Him, and in Him it disappears. He is that shining form which gives heat in yonder sun and which is the brilliant light in a smokeless fire, as also the fire in the stomach which cooks food. For thus has [...]
Mutations :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I saw in a hall an arrow pointing the way and I thought that this inoffensive symbol had once been a thing of iron, an inescapable and fatal projectile that pierced the flesh of men and of lions and clouded the sun at Thermopolae and gave Harald Sigurdarson six feet of English earth forever. Some [...]
Martin Fierro :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out of this city marched armies that seemed to be great, and afterwards were, when glory had magnified them. As the years went by, an occasional soldier returned and, with a foreign trace in his speech, told tales of what had happened to him in places called Ituzaingo or Ayacucho. These things, now, are as [...]
The Plot :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To make his horror complete, Caesar, pressed to the foot of a statue by the impatient daggers of his friends, discovers among the blades and faces the face of Marcus Junius Brutus, his protege, perhaps his son, and ceasing to defend himself he exclaims: “You too, my son!” Shakespeare and Quevedo revive the pathetic cry. [...]
Delia Elena San Marco :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We said goodbye on a corner in Once. From the other sidewalk I turned to look back; you too had turned, and you waved goodbye to me. A river of vehicles and people were flowing between us. It was five o’clock on an ordinary afternoon. How was I to know that the river was Acheron [...]
The Captive :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The story is told in Junin or in Tapalque. A boy disappeared after an Indian attack. People said the Indians had kidnapped him. He parents searched for him in vain. Then, long years later, a soldier who came from the interior told them about an Indian with blue eyes who might well be their son. [...]
Toenails :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Soft stockings coddle them by day and nail-bossed leather shoes buttress them, but my toes refuse to pay attention. Nothing interests them but emitting toenails, horny plates, semi-transparent and elastic, to defend themselves–from whom? Stupid and mistrustful as they alone can be, they never for a moment stop readying that tenuous armament. They reject the [...]
Dreamtigers :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Short Prose, tagged Borges, Fiction, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Short Story on September 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the Paraná, but that striped, Asiatic, royal tiger, that can only be faced by a man of war, on a castle atop an elephant. I used [...]
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