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...Hasidic rock movement is alive and well, as we found out when we spoke to aleph-list guitarist Yosi Piamenta, who has won comparisons with Jimi Hendrix from New York audiences...
...interesting resident. "You say 'Las Vegas' in Osaka or Johannesburg, anywhere in the world, and people smile, they understand. It represents all the things people in every city in America like. Here they can get it in one gulp." There is a Jorge Luis Borges story called The Aleph that describes the magical point where all places are seen from every angle. Las Vegas has become that place in America, less because of its own transformation in the past decade than because of the transformation of the nation. Las Vegas has become Americanized, and, even more, America has become...
...modern eye what the flea market was to the sur realists 50 years ago - an endless, random repository, a disorderly world parallel to the real one, stuffed with the pathos of nostalgia and secret messages about social organization. Photography, in this sense, is rather like Borges' "Aleph": it contains every possibility and no resolutions, but everything in it is equally interesting. And so, in a funamental way, it becomes a powerful tool of separation...
...mankind ever seeks some unify ing principle or vision. In a much earlier Borges collection, it took the form of the "Aleph," a tiny spot of light in which everything that occurred in the world could be seen simultaneously. In the new book, there is "undr, " a single word meaning wonder, which is an ancient tribe's entire body of literature. The Book of Sand is an other expression of this hyperidealism. A collector acquires a clothbound octavo volume bearing the title "Holy Writ." But he can never find the same place twice...
...Luis Borges has spent a lifetime trying to run away-with stunning success. In part it is the fixed writer of public renown that he fears and flees. Each of his tales represents an escape to some unexplored realm of the imagination. In the most recent stories in The Aleph, he has made still another escape: from intellectual labyrinths to the raw, stark world of the pampas...