"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
-Kafka
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Short Borges Clip
I found a short clip of a Borges interview (it's translated). Borges comments on ideas we have discussed in class, mainly the significant limitations of language.
What a great interview clip. We've been talking about Borges so much that it's kind of disorienting (and magical at the same time) to see him in a video and hear him talking. He's just so mythic...
What a great interview clip. We've been talking about Borges so much that it's kind of disorienting (and magical at the same time) to see him in a video and hear him talking. He's just so mythic...
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