Thought for the Day (Borges)

[Kato du Bois]

>From: "Otto"
>
>Richard Romeo wrote:
>Thought for the Day
>'Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence
>of a revelation which does not in fact occur.' (Borges)
>
>Very beautiful, and I think P knows his Borges well.
>
>Otto

Yes, and if you've read "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (of "Ficciones"), 
you'll recall that that short story details the narrator's frustration in 
reconciling different editions of an encylclopedia that do or do not include 
a description of an imaginary world that may or may not have been fabricated 
by a vast conspiracy of writers ...

K d B


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp