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...Borges and Us" provides an audience just beginning to appreciate Borges' inventive "fictions" and enchanting Norton lectures with an introduction to the remarkable personality behind the magic. Wilson's technique is to remain unobtrusive, to give Borges free rein. The two quickly establish a lively, productive rapport (Wilson: "My next question may be irrelevant." Borges: "I enjoy irrelevant questions.... The answers are irrelevant, so the questions have to be irrelevant also...
...SEARCH FOR SPEED UNDER SAIL, 1700-1855 by Howard I. Chapelle. 453 pages. Norton...
...CRICKET WINTER, by Felice Holman, illustrated by Ralph Pinto (Norton; $3.95). A lovely fantasy, realistically wrought, of a lonely boy and a cricket who talk to each other via Morse code...
...Borges magic. If you'd been to the first Charles Eliot Norton lecture, you were under the spell again in four seconds. If the second lecture was your first, it took a minute longer...
...entire book "to develop an idea whose oral demonstration fits into a few minutes." His fictions seldom exceed 10 pages. He calls them "footnotes" to hypothetical books, since he believes in "the certitude that everything has been written." Rediscovery and rearrangement, not "originality," are his objects. In the second Norton lecture Borges assured his audience that the world will never suffer a shortage of metaphors, even though they can all be classified in some ancient, fundamental pattern. As with a kaleidoscope, a limited number of basic elements has an almost infinite number of combinations...