I was amazed by how unTexan Don B sounds.
― Stevie T, Friday, 11 September 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
Borges' fav movie was west side story
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 September 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
great choice!
― scott seward, Friday, 11 September 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
i wonder if he was a fan of The Warriors.
― scott seward, Friday, 11 September 2015 19:43 (eight years ago) link
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
Love what Borges says in his Paris Review interview: "I think that the whole world of Kafka is to be found in a far more complex way in the stories of Henry James"
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 11 September 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link
I think I saw that list, or a very similar list, somewhere before, and along with it came someone's mention that there were zero women on the list, and that comment sparked a series of other comments that demonstrated that Borges didn't respect women at all. Probably common knowledge to most, but it was news to me, knocking him down from godlike genius to genius with terrible flaws.
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Saturday, 12 September 2015 02:21 (eight years ago) link
He was a big promoter of his friend Silvina Ocampo, but perhaps she was the only one he liked? Or the fact they knew each other meant he couldnt ignore her.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Sunday, 13 September 2015 11:16 (eight years ago) link
Googling "Borges Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" doesn't bring anything unfortunately - would've thought Borges was into her poetry (they are similarly voracious readers/live in libraries etc)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 September 2015 11:36 (eight years ago) link
are there any syllabi of exclusively women's writing? can prob crowdsource one here, I guess wd contain at least 1 of didion, jean rhys, moore, spark, jansson, elizabeth bowen, highsmith, ferrante, le guin, munro, elizabeth bishop, mccullers, woolf, comyns, murdoch, o'connor, adler
― hot doug stamper (||||||||), Sunday, 13 September 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
i should read some woolf someday. probably. i should, right? i probably should.
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 September 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
i think i did read a room of one's own.
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 September 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
when all is said and done, i'm a pretty trad dad. katherine mansfield 4 lyfe.
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 September 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
btw scott, do I remember you like Thea Astley? If so, you might well like Elizabeth Harrower and Jessica Anderson, two other Australian writers of similar sensibility and style and sporadic bad-temperedness
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 14 September 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
are there any syllabi of exclusively women's writing?
yeah, i think i remembered where i first saw borges' list, which prompted this:
http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/74-books-curated-by-female-creatives.html
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 14 September 2015 02:12 (eight years ago) link
Reminder that in The Name of the Rose Eco made the blind venerable Jorge of Burgos the villain
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 12:41 (ten months ago) link