Blogs about: Jorge Luis Borges

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Tlön, Uqbar, Thomas Browne, Rings of Saturn

mitchellirons wrote 14 hours ago: Jorge Luis Borges Is Awesome This past weekend, Globe Books did us all a favour by featuring Jorge … more »

Tags: Literature, Ficciones, Globe Books, Literature, Meta, Rings of Saturn, thomas browne, W.G. Sebald

El Hacedor (The Maker)

Ben wrote 22 hours ago: He had never dwelled on memory’s delights. Impressions slid over him, vivid but ephemeral. A p … more »

Tags: Literature, Short Story, Literature, Quotes, Short Story, Borgès, Jorge Luis Borges

To Leopold Lugones

Ben wrote 22 hours ago: Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitat … more »

Tags: Literature, Short Story, Borgès, Jorge Luis Borges, Literature, Quotes, Short Story

DreamWorld

spywriter wrote 4 days ago: One concept corrupts and confuses the others… I am speaking of the infinite … We (the un … more »

Tags: spywriter, Thoughts, World

POEM OF THE DAY: Shinto

wepoplaski wrote 4 days ago: by Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986).   Shinto   When sorrow lays us low for a second we are saved … more »

Tags: Poetry, Poem, Poetry, Shinto, Sorrow

'When the map is contained within the territory, you are led into infinite regress'

totalitarian wrote 6 days ago: Jorge Luis Borges: ‘Let us imagine that a portion of the soil of England has been levelled off … more »

Tags: infinite regress

The Listener's Guide to One From the Heart: 6

alecjweatherwood wrote 2 weeks ago: 10 THINGS YOU COULD SAY ABOUT BYZANTINE RHYMES 1: The sample I used for this song is, as a matter of … more »

Tags: one from the heart, Byzantine, Cam'Ron, diplomats, Dipset, dj screw, el d, hip-hop, Music

Electric Babylon1 comment

TNP wrote 2 weeks ago: The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps an infinite, numb … more »

Tags: Misc, The Internet, the web, The Library of Babel, Nicholas Carr, Pavel Curtis, lambdaMOO, The Crimson Hexagon, Mysticism

jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges1 comment

gron wrote 1 month ago: NOTES from the UNDERGROUND… No.143 | May 15, 2008 Borges Just when I think everyone’s heard ort … more »

Next stop: Borges4 comments

electricalphabet wrote 1 month ago: Via Maud Newton, I’ve just discovered Literature Map, a digital ‘tourist map’ of a … more »

Tags: Authors, Jeffrey Ford, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kate Eltham, Literature Map, Maud Newton

Birth Years1 comment

cactusbeetroot wrote 2 months ago: Sir Isaac Newton was born in the year that Galileo Galilei died. Similarly, Albert Einstein was born … more »

Tags: Thoughts, Albert Einstein, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, benny goodman, James Clerk Maxwell, Galileo Galilei

De Borges a los piqueteros2 comments

FZeroX wrote 2 months ago: Por Mario Vargas Llosa, para La Nación La biblioteca Miguel Cané, en el barrio bonaerense de Boedo … more »

Tags: Peronismo, piqueteros, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, piqueteros, Peronismo

Before The Exams

cactusbeetroot wrote 3 months ago: Books I’ll Finish Here are the books I intend to finish up before the onset of the exams: Ein … more »

Tags: Books, Gaming, Science, writing, xkcd, James Joyce, mgs, mr. t, Dubliners

Realismo y fantasía, Realism and fantasy

satwolf wrote 3 months ago:   “Si llamamos realidad a la suma de todas las apariencias, toda literatura es real … more »

Tags: Quotes, Creación, busqueda de la verdad., Citas, Sueños, Dreams, Search of truth, Literatura, Literature

Who needs Linnaeus?

hemlock wrote 3 months ago: “…it is written that animals are divided into: those that belong to the Emperor; embalmed ones; … more »

Tags: X-Files, Read, Taxonomy, Linnaeus, Darwin

Why Borges took to writing short stories

Guru wrote 3 months ago: According to Borges himself — as quoted by Jonah Lehrer: … I had an accident. You can fe … more »

Tags: writing, People

Boast of Quietness by Jorge Luis Borges

Another Dreamer wrote 3 months ago: Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes … more »

Tags: just stuff, Poems

The Quixote by Pierre Menard

huysmans wrote 3 months ago: I have to agree with Jorge Luis Borges who so eloquently defended Menard’s Quixote. As Borges … more »

Tags: Comparative Blogging Foundation Posts, Literature, Comparative Blogging Foundation, quixote, pierre menard, Cervantes, duchamp, Fountain 1917, LHOOQ

Reading 129, from Jorge Luis Borges

rhapsodysinger wrote 3 months ago: Let Persian metre modulate my verse, Reminding it that time’s own woven course Is all the a … more »

Tags: lectio divina, spirituality, Literature, Truth, romanticism, ethics, Universal, daily readings, Poetry


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