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   [Date]: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:16:10 +0900
   [From]: t o m v i n c e n t <tomv@crisscross.com>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@herz.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: Viva Borges!

a brief switchback to the minithread about Borges some months ago now.
An interesting, and somewhat scathing, article in the new issue of FEED.

http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es277_master.html


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IN MANY WAYS, Borges' stories are the literary equivalent of M.C.
Escher's graphic work -- those iconic prints of M=1B$B=8BC=1B(Bius stairw=
ays, hands
drawing each other, birds turning into carp. Both artists construct flash=
y
and elegant head-games that draw you in and "make you think" (you
think), but ultimately give off only a fake odor of philosophy. The
trippiness grows old rather quickly, like a diet of hash brownies. (It's
small wonder that Borges and Escher are favorites of stoners around the
world.) Like Escher's etchings, Borges' stories can be momentarily
vertiginous, but little more.

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Tom