I don't think we should mix any author's work up with their personal life, even though the life of authors may help to explain their work ( Read more... )

First off here is a Martian calendar. You can find what your Martian age is and when you next Martian birthday will be. From now on, I will tell everybody that I'm 22 years and 9 months old!

Secondly here is Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" played on a dulcimer:

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And finally, here is a link to an article on OpenCulture about Jorge Luis Borges ( Read more... )

I am not very active on LJ for several reasons, mainly papers to mark, a cold, and kittens to domesticate.

But I wanted to save this link to UbuWeb that I found via OpenCulture. The UbuWeb page provides 9 mp3 files that are mere little gems ( Read more... )

It is an old question in art and literature. Are we what we think we are or are we being fooled and actually living a farce?

Do we really exist just because we are aware of our own existence? Are we sentient beings or the figments of someone else's imagination?

My favourite author, Jorge Luis Borges, once wrote a short story that deals with the issue ( Read more... )

All Our Yesterdays

“Quiero saber de quién es mi pasado.
¿De cuál de los que fui? ¿Del ginebrino
Que trazó algún hexámetro latino
Que los lustrales años han borrado?
¿Es de aquel niño que buscó en la entera
Biblioteca del padre las puntuales
Curvaturas del mapa y las ferales
Formas que son el tigre y la pantera?
¿O de aquel otro que empujó una puerta
( Read more... )

Today Google celebrates my favourite author, Jorge Luis Borges...the blind man in the library who dreamt the stuff he couldn't see and wrote down what he had dreamt. He would have been 112...

"The Google Doodle shows a complex scene of an aging man overlooking great architecture from behind glass. Study the illustration and you will find a library ( Read more... )

LJ ate my post!

I've been writing a review on the two last episodes of Lost for an hour, and everything is gone! I'm so frustrated and angry right now it's not even funny.

I digressed a lot and was in the middle of interpretating Lost through the Ultraist doctrine, in which the art of metaphor rules, and drawing parallels with Borges' works that are ( Read more... )