Another Frenesi name game--Borges

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Thu Dec 3 17:28:21 CST 1998


John Mascaro sez
>Longish post ensues--

Longish but marvelous.

>Ireneo Funes. Frenesi. All those ones.
>
>
>memoriously,

"Funes the Memorious" is probably my own favorite among Borges' stories.  I
doubt very much that Pynchon intended the connection, anagrammatickal and
thematickal, between Funes and Frenesi, but I love it.  Thanks Johnny!

Cheers,
David



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