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Borges is perfect at format. And should have gotten a Nobel prize, but didn't get it strictly because he stood by the military dictatorship in Argentina. Not
by daniel-cussen 4y ago
Borges is perfect at format.
And should have gotten a Nobel prize, but didn't get it strictly because he stood by the military dictatorship in Argentina. Not the only Latin American writer who likes the military, Diego Maquieira, my godfather, who I featured on this site when he let me put one of his poems online, wrote an epic poem called Los sea harrier, based on military technology of the 80's in the Falklands War, particularly its namesake airplane the Sea Harrier and mothership aircraft carriers. The military, which believe it or not wasn't completely devoted to persecution, and further which did produce culture at the time, I've seen many military men playing in orchestras, even saw a Dongelspiel at the very end of one. They wanted to take him to Antartica, the Chilean military has a strong presence and is very dominant in Antartica. There's other right-wing intellectuals, not so much into the money as into the military aspect, like there's a 90-year-old Mussolinist who will not apologize for his fascism even in his epitaph--but check this out, he didn't buy into the racial laws, and once he saw what War was when losing saw it wasn't all that glamorous. Roman. Black-shirt youth.
But great artist, so Borges was a great writer, and in fact I would say nowadays the internet is increasingly a Borgesian library. All the way, you follow links, follow links, follow links, read some shit, decide what link is next, follow links, boom you see a list of social security numbers, and you're on it, and it has codes--who can explain the 3 digit numbers next to them? Who printed this, where does it come from? Like how can you interpret it to continue believing you're not being persecuted, it's not happening? That's when I talk my medicine from when I was considered schizophrenic, which I still get, it's a loophole. Instantly turns down the temperature. But you? What would you do, in a Borgesian library?
The Borgesian library is a reflection of yourself, there's no objectivity to it, en este mundo en que nada es verdad y nada es mentira, todo depende del color del cristal por el que uno lo mira.