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  1. Father State (Living Easy)

    Living is a race against time
    Running upwards the hourglass
    Limning no stitch in time save nine
    For frowning atoms singing last.

    e.e. cummings liked McCarthy.
    J.L. Borges did much explain
    y u want the state so easy
    which D.H. Lawrence liked just fine.

  2. “Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” – JLB

    Borges was a librarian, a chimera, a statue, a comedian, a philosopher, and I am sure he was a great companion to those who knew him personally. The legacies of Borges & Piazzolla are national treasures.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbdakZjHTys

  3. My “Nano-Office” is located in the lower floor of a medical research hospital “universe”…

    Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink…

    “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head”

  4. A lot of visitors to Argentina made contact with Borges. It was a fair exchange. They got to visit with the great man, and he got them to read to him, which for a blind bookmeister like Borges, was like giving water to someone dying of thirst.

    In the late 1970s, the Argentine comic strip Clemente Y Bartolo had a strip where Clemente the duck asks, “Why didn’t Borges win the Nobel Prize for Literature? Argentina just won the Nobel Prize for Soccer(World Cup 1978). And for YEARS we have won the Nobel Prize for inflation!”

    Love that sardonic Argentine humor.

    The main reason Borges didn’t win the Nobel Prize for Literature had to do with politics. He supported the military regime, as did more Argentine than care to admit. Borge’s support of the junta is most likely the reason why he didn’t win the Nobel.

    Jacobo Timmernan, the author of Prisoner Without Name, Cell Without Number his account of being tortured by the milicos, initially supported the Junta. In fact, he published editorials calling for the coup, as an alternative to the kidnappings, bombings and hyper inflation during the government of the ineffectual Isabel Peron. ( My father’s response to Timmerman: heist on his own petard.)

    Moreover, Borges didn’t like the Peronistas. Peron had booted him out of a National Library job back in the 1950s.

    Borges’s works will be judged by their literary quality, not by his support of the junta nor by his lack of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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