Borges' opinions

[Steven]

	Hard for me to see Borges as a macho man.  His style was simple and  
clear but not Hemmingwayish at all.  Imo.  His form could be Baroque  
and his thought a bit ornate...but I wouldn't crucify him for his  
hidebound racial opinions -- he was an author and he didn't use his  
talent to cause a Holocaust.  Don't we all forgive certain great  
artists of personal foibles and even grossly base opinions?  I do.   
Degas was the greatest artist in 300 years, a master of line, tone,  
color, psychology, composition, touch, etc.  There wasn't an artistic  
sense he didn't have in spades.  But he was an incorrigible anti- 
Semite.  I was shocked to learn that, but got over it.  You have to!  
He and Cezanne both proved themselves incredibly ignorant anti- 
Dreyfus-ists -- so what.  A hundred years later the moron Himmler is  
being described by Norman effing Mailer as having an 'original mind'  
and I can't enjoy Degas or Borges?


On Jan 20, 2007, at 6:36 PM, rich wrote:

> sounds like a macho dickhead
>
> never was a big fan of all that knife fighting and bullfighting  
> shite sensibility
> rich

Steven



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