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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

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18 short stories typically with an ironic SF or fantasy tinge and heavy reliance on twist endings (more like Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives or Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others than The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq). As w ...more
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A followup to Keene's Travelers of 100 Ages, this takes the same format of a series of essays (originally published in newspapers/magazines) where he gives the historical context and summarizes the events in the diaries with occasional quotes while e ...more
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“Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.
Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.
For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: ariosto, don-quixote, literary-criticism, mythology

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“All things left her, all
But one. Her highborn courtliness
Accompanied her to the end,
Beyond the rapture and its eclipse,
In a way like an angel's. Of Elvira
The first thing that I saw - such years ago -
Was her smile and also it was the last.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

tags: aging, beautiful-creatures, death

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“There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Discusión

tags: ethics, infinity, philosophy

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“Of all the books I have delivered to the presses, none, I think, is as personal as the straggling collection mustered for this hodgepodge, precisely because it abounds in reflections and interpolations.
Few things have happened to me, and I have read a great many. Or rather, few things have happened to me more worth remembering than Schopenhauer's thought or the music of England's words.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

tags: life, philosophy, schophenauer

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“He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

tags: education, omar-khayyam, theology

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