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JORGE LUIS BORGES Buenos Aires
Read across, rather than down, the above becomes a poem. Call it Civilized Man. Only he gives names to, let alone catalogues reading, sex, and eating. The difficulty of the task is revealed in the bizarre logic of classification, which is no more advanced than the "certain Chinese encyclopedia" in...
Jorge Luis Borges, 83, Argentine author, on last year's island war between Britain and his country: "The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Yet not all the fun was clumsy. Examining Chesterton's fiction, Jorge Luis Borges praised "one of the finest writers of our time," possessed with "fortunate invention . . . visual imagination and rhetorical virtues." Lionel Trilling maintained that Chesterton was "a far greater critic than his present reputation might suggest." And...
Jorge Lulls Borges: No cute stuff here, the man is my candidate At 83, this writer has endured. Person made him Impactor of the Chickens or something like that to humiliate him. But check out Paul Theroux's account of his meetings with the Argentine master in The Old paragoning...