August 2011
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“It is said: a man is born of his mother and fed of his mother. Then he is fed of...”
– R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before
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Interview With William Gibson →
Back in January I interviewed Science Fiction author William Gibson for Canadian Notes & Queries. The interview saw print months ago, but it’s now finally online. Enjoy!
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“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “A Note on (Toward) Bernard Shaw” in Labyrinths, various translators (via proustitute)
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“Toward dawn, he dreamed that he was in hiding, in one of the naves of the...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, ”The Secret Miracle”, tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions, 1998. (via skibinskipedia)
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Ginger Wail: "I am merely a man of letters." So... →
miettecast:
Lawrence I. Berkove: “Tlön” is a good example of one of your stories where, however the story ends, the reader is encouraged to continue applying your ideas.
Borges: Well, I hope so. But I wonder if they are my ideas. Because really I am not a thinker. I have used the philosophers’ ideas…
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“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to...”
– R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before
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“I had love once in the palm of my hand.
See the lines there.”
– John Wieners, from “A Poem for Painters” (via proustitute)
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