Borges
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Don’t Invite Borges to Your World Cup Party
As the World Cup continues, everyone seems to be a soccer fan. One person who wasn’t? Jorge Luis Borges. According to The New Republic, the famed Argentine writer loathed the game, going so far as to purposefully schedule a lecture…
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The other other Borges
“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one who skates at the Place de la Concorde on blocks of ice.” A D Jameson at HTMLGiant satirizes Jorge Luis Borges’s short piece “Borges And I” while imagining an explanation for…
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Stuck Between Two Impossible Libraries
“Every librarian, every book collector, finds him or herself between these two mythical places—the Perfect Library of God and the Infinite Library of Babel, the one transcribed by Jerome, the other by Borges.” At Lapham’s Quarterly, a beautiful meditation on…