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Who else is ready for beatification? Some think Robert Penn Warren. Ralph Ellison, for one book, Invisible Man (1952). J B. Priestley? Alberto Moravia? Doris Lessing? Graham Greene? Jorge Luis Borges? The morally imposing Alexander Sofehenitsyn? Yes Certainly Samuel Beckett, the muttering old codger of modernism, who changed the spiritual...
There is not a false note in Short Shorts. The contents-38 fictions-range back to Leo Tolstoy's The Three Hermits, whose pious innocents forget a prayer and run on top of the ocean to find their condescending teacher. The most recent are powerful condensations of modern life...
Kim devotes an entire section to Great Names in the annals of symmetry and self-reference. "MARTIN GARDNER" and "ASIMOV" both preserve their shape upside-down. Read "BORGES" a second time: It's "JORGE" written over "LUIS." And in a tip of the hat to Inversions's literary soulmate, Douglas...
Jorge Luis Borges, 82, author, on why he writes: "So that I wouldn't have to spend my life correcting manuscripts."
Says a civilian confidant of high military officials: "The road the generals have chosen is very long and very dangerous. They are afraid of the consequences facing them. We all fell into the simplicity of doing away with subversion at any cost, and now we are paying the price." The...