Sunday, August 25, 2013

From the Mistaken Hands

"Once I wrote two fragments with very little in them produced by thought and very little purpose -- but they contain what I like to find." ~ Felisberto Hernández

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The reader, the writer

"The novel Amedeo was reading had reached the point where the darkest secrets of characters and plot are revealed, and you move in a familiar world, and you achieve a kind of parity, an ease between author and reader: you proceed together, and you would like to go on forever."

— "The adventure of a reader" from Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver) 

Saturday, May 18, 2013

What went with Borges

"In time there was a day that extinguished the last eyes to see Christ; the battle of Junín and the love of Helen died with the death of a man. What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? The voice of Macedonio Fernández, the image of a red horse in the vacant lot at Serrano and Charcas, a bar of sulphur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?"

— "The Witness" by Jorge Luis Borges (translated by James. E. Irby)

 
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