With the football vid, my question is why did the qback get all the glory in that Very Touching retrospective?
It's a good question, but I have no clue. I'd have to ask someone who actually knows about football - maybe musesfool. The only thing I know about football is that if you put into the search box at YouTube, you get a lot of results.
Also, who is this Borges fellow, and what should I be reading of his?
Jorge Luis Borges was a great writer; possibly one of the greatest. His works are an amazing combination of magic and reality, and in that sense he's kind of like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I love Borges's works, and in particular, I love his short stories, which are intensely brilliant, magical and mystical and insightful. He also wrote essays, poetry, some really interesting longer works, all kinds of stuff. The man was a master.
I'd recommend at least his short stories, and if you like those, there are several places you can go from there.
Here are links to the text of two of his stories (in translation) online:
Funes the Memorious (http://www.bridgewater.edu/~atrupe/GEC101/Funes.html) is the story I reference in the rec up there. It's about memory, and detail, and why the ability to forget is necessary - not just for comfort, but for original thought, for continued existence, for everything. (Borges said it was about insomnia, which will make sense to you if you've ever had the brain-on-a-hamster-wheel kind of insomnia.)
The Library of Babel (http://www.analitica.com/bitblioteca/jjborges/library_babel.asp). It's about the universe. And a library. And I really can't say any more than that.
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It's a good question, but I have no clue. I'd have to ask someone who actually knows about football - maybe
Also, who is this Borges fellow, and what should I be reading of his?
Jorge Luis Borges was a great writer; possibly one of the greatest. His works are an amazing combination of magic and reality, and in that sense he's kind of like Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I love Borges's works, and in particular, I love his short stories, which are intensely brilliant, magical and mystical and insightful. He also wrote essays, poetry, some really interesting longer works, all kinds of stuff. The man was a master.
I'd recommend at least his short stories, and if you like those, there are several places you can go from there.
Here are links to the text of two of his stories (in translation) online:
Funes the Memorious (http://www.bridgewater.edu/~atrupe/GEC101/Funes.html) is the story I reference in the rec up there. It's about memory, and detail, and why the ability to forget is necessary - not just for comfort, but for original thought, for continued existence, for everything. (Borges said it was about insomnia, which will make sense to you if you've ever had the brain-on-a-hamster-wheel kind of insomnia.)
The Library of Babel (http://www.analitica.com/bitblioteca/jjborges/library_babel.asp). It's about the universe. And a library. And I really can't say any more than that.