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According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. -
Thanks calum,
I feel a dip into his collected Fictions coming on later this evening.
I met that Norman Thomas di Giovanni once - he signed my copy of "The Book of Sand" which he had co-translated with JLB. A very nice man, very down to earth. -
¿Qué? (Apart from the fact that it is the 112th anniversary of the birth of JLB)
I haven't identified the graphic ...It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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The Library at Babel and the City of the Immortals, perhaps, with those staircases that lead nowhere?Comment
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it is googles graphic, they are celebrating ff click on the master's name in first messageAccording to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Reminiscent of Escher's Tower of Babel, yes.
Libraries and books figure quite a lot, don't they? Borges said something about the most important thing in his childhood was his father's huge library (of English books).It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Oh yes. Infinite libraries and infinite books.
One of the most astonishing things about Borges is the breadth of his reading and the laconic, almost matter-of-fact way in which he cites the most arcane of texts.
I can't remember who said of Borges that he was the greatest writer never to win a Nobel Prize.Comment
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