But I don’t want to see what I’ve already seen, or write about what everyone already knows. I want to dazzle myself. I want to live in the knowledge (as Borges once said, citing Shakespeare) that “there are more things.”
-Benjamín Labatut

#writing #astonishment #Shakespeare #Borges #Labatut #PayingAttention

"Borges and the Paper Kingdom"--my essay on Jorge Luis Borges's "La biblioteca de Babel," Robert Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' and their overlapping visions of infinitely repeating hexagons -- is now available in Chasqui 51.2

#Borges #Melancholy #Babel

(PDF on request via DM... otherwise, if possible, just check your university library!)

RT @literlandweb1: #Borges

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