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Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges urged young writers in a talk Tuesday night to "make sure everything is true to the dream" which inspires them.
Speaking before an overflow audience in Boylston Hall auditorium, Borges warned writers not to "dazzle or surprise" their readers. A writer should not let his words "stand between him and the reader," he cautioned: rather the words should be "invisible."
Above all, Borges said, a writer should not "be defeated by his own words, his own cleverness." His own procedure, he said, is to write out each new idea in the barest way he can, "inventing as little as possible."
Borges said that a recitation of poetry by a dinner guest at his father's house showed him that language was "not only an instrument of communication, but
Victor Borge, the happy Dane, comes to TV in his own show hardly more often than Christmas or the Festival of Music, and he is just as welcome. There are no comedians with Borge's talent for the piano, and no pianists with Borge's gift for comedy...