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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by BLKNSLVR on Sunday March 07, 2021 @03:56AM (#26374341)
My introduction to Borges was stumbling across this taxonomy of animals:

    those that belong to the Emperor,
    embalmed ones,
    those that are trained,
    suckling pigs,
    mermaids,
    fabulous ones,
    stray dogs,
    those included in the present classification,
    those that tremble as if they were mad,
    innumerable ones,
    those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
    others,
    those that have just broken a flower vase,
    those that from a long way off look like flies.
The mental boundaries that were broken as a result of this list...

https://multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html

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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by keiferski on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:38AM (#26373454)
Borges spoke English fluently, too, and there is a great lecture series by him on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/YSLV7t9DvN8

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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by lioeters on Sunday March 07, 2021 @05:28AM (#26374741)
Wow, what a treat! Thank you, I will enjoy this.

> Jorge Luis Borges giving his 6 Norton Lectures in fall 1967 and spring 1968.

> 1. The Riddle of Poetry

> 2. The Metaphor

> 3. The Telling of the Tale

> 4. Word-Music and Translation

> 5. Thought and Poetry

> 6. A Poet's Creed

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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by every on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:59PM (#26372088)
As luck would have it, I am currently revisiting The Book of Imaginary Beings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings
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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by jacksonkmarley on Sunday March 07, 2021 @08:17AM (#26375629)
Wow, thanks for posting that, what a great read!

I always loved Theroux's more narrative article about Borges [0], but this one you can really feel where he's coming from directly.

[0] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/31/r...

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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by siraben on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:44PM (#26372947)
One of my favorite short stories by Jorge Luis Borges is The Library of Babel[0], in which characters live in an infinite library that enumerates all possible strings of a certain length in book form. It even has an online version[1]! You can find the version of this post at[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

[1] https://libraryofbabel.info/

[2] https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?c4rswwjyq92rx9b0t433js5...

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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by dcolkitt on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:41PM (#26373192)
"You who read me, are you sure you understand my language?”
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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by glial on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:54AM (#26377436)
Agreed, it is wonderful. Funes the Memorious is also delightfully thought-provoking. It’s about an individual that remembers absolutely everything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious

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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by jorgenveisdal on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:07AM (#26373883)
Check out the podcast ‘Very Bad Wizards’ and their episodes about Borges
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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by zedakhtar on Sunday March 07, 2021 @08:08AM (#26375574)
This was refreshing. Thanks for sharing
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