thoughts on reading Borges
I'm reading some Borges and got to thinking, which is always fun.
Understanding is a form of interpretation that facilitates prediction. Science is about telling the future from the signs.
Saying why something might have happened is a game in which you win a point when your reading triggers a "yes" response that is felt. Philosophy, psychology, therapy have personal value in part by allowing us to affirm events more readily when they happen to us again.
Literature, art, make constructions out of the things we have torn apart by naming. As Borges describes in the story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, in The Garden of Forking Paths:
"There are things composed of many: the sun and water against the swimmer's breast, ..."
Relationships across time, not objects in time, as a view of the world.
I find continuing beyond the edges of where we begin, or expect to end, really captivating...
Understanding is a form of interpretation that facilitates prediction. Science is about telling the future from the signs.
Saying why something might have happened is a game in which you win a point when your reading triggers a "yes" response that is felt. Philosophy, psychology, therapy have personal value in part by allowing us to affirm events more readily when they happen to us again.
Literature, art, make constructions out of the things we have torn apart by naming. As Borges describes in the story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, in The Garden of Forking Paths:
"There are things composed of many: the sun and water against the swimmer's breast, ..."
Relationships across time, not objects in time, as a view of the world.
I find continuing beyond the edges of where we begin, or expect to end, really captivating...