May 28, 2006 21:07
(a diorama, even:) i wish to be rid of silly, stupid people and to be taken up with the wise. i envision this so: zouaves around a campfire, with canteens and veils over their faces, and i am among those who take seats on the ground.
that was last night, before &c. with bobbsie and alexandra maria arango
oh man earlier today i worked out, i'm sore but happy now
oh man i think i could devote a good fraction of a life to reading borges, over and over and over
read (these are all shorts):
pierre menard, author of the quixote
the immortal
the library of babel
the lottery of babylon
the duel
the interloper
ragnarok
averroes' search
funes, his memory (funes el memorioso)
parable of the palace
there is something very very satisfying about being able to turn anywhere in this book of five hundred pages and a hundred stories, and finding sometimes semiprecious and sometimes very precious words, but each and every one a gem