In general agree, but think "failings" is too harsh a word, its more like a motif or trope or something. It's like saying it is a failing for Piet Mondrian to paint little colored rectangles or Hitchcock to use doubled characters.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
whatta maroon, paint some circles already
― j., Thursday, 1 May 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 May 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
yeah failings is kind of harsh... limitations, maybe?
― PLATYPUS OF DOOM (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 May 2014 23:26 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 2 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Everything that got a zero was robbed. Everything that got a one too.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 01:41 (ten years ago) link
Feel like you get more insight, or aperçus, as Xgau used to call them, from a negative Lem writeup than from someone else's praise.
'nh' typo in thread title makes me think it is some kind of Portuguese word.
― Bee Traven Thousand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 May 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link
"The Immortal" is the only zero-vote-getter I would really miss if it were gone
― endzone selfie (bernard snowy), Friday, 2 May 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ETLr6SV.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 24 August 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
On his partner/literary executor:
https://www.thedial.world/issue-7/jorge-luis-borges-legacy-maria-kodama
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:26 (ten months ago) link
Haven't checked your link yet, but title reminds me of some discussion on another good old thread: Borges translation?
― dow, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 03:07 (ten months ago) link