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	Salon Books Webmaster Borges
		I look forward, for instance, to the events that will allow us to fully comprehend "The South," the curious tale of a traveler who gets in a knife fight, the tale that Borges thought might be his best story.
		It was in the story "Pierre Menard, Author of the 'Quixote,'" that I found just such a phrase, a tip-off that the greatest inspiration for Borges' work was a phenomenon that wasn't invented until four years after his death in 1986: the World Wide Web.
		Borges writes that his fictional author "has (perhaps unwittingly) enriched the slow and rudimentary art of reading by means of a new technique -- the technique of deliberate anachronism and fallacious attribution.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/12/06/borges (1099 words)

	Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
		Much of Borges' best is collected here -- from the brilliant idea behind Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote (in which part of Don Quixote is written anew), to the prototypical Borgesian story of books and infinity, The Library of Babel, to the haunting Funes, the Memorious and The South.
		Borges is a pleasure that can be hard to take in too large doses: his fictions are so dense and compact that they are best lingered over, and taking him up a few stories at a time seems preferable to plunging into the collected works.
		Much of Borges is elsewhere -- in later collections (most notably The Aleph), as well as in his poetry and his non-fiction work (see our review of his Selected Non-Fictions) -- but this handy little volume collects many of Borges' finest and most memorable creations.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/borgesjl/ficciones.htm (978 words)

	Jonathan Goodwin » War Studies
		This story made me wonder about which of the world’s militaries are currently deploying or have the ability to deploy high-intensity lasers on the battlefield to blind the enemy.
		Perhaps the South Korean government might be forgiven for being sensitive about American cultural products which seem to advocate the inevitability of a war with their neighbor that will be destructive beyond imagining, especially as U.S. foreign policy is seen by many Korean observers as advocating the same.
		Thanks to commenter Matt Weiner for suggesting the Borges, which I had somehow avoided reading up to this point.
	www.jgoodwin.net /index.php?cat=12 (1106 words)

	The Stranger - Books - Feature - Occidental Blindness
		Blinding Light has much in common with "The Aleph," a short story by Jorge Luis Borges-an Argentine writer often credited, with some justification, as the father of magical realism, and also a writer who was not favorably portrayed in Theroux's famous travel book The Old Patagonian Express.
		Theroux's powers as a writer can never be doubted but it is doubtful that he will ever overcome one of the most powerful occidental fantasies: a senescent North being revived (at the risk of death) by the fresh blood of a wild, young, and vital South.
		The Bible's interpretation of the birth of humankind is retold in the novel's first chapter, "Drug Tour." Adam corresponds with a writer named Slade Steadman; Eve with a doctor named Ava; and the snake is a German named Manfred Steiger.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=21674 (1106 words)

	Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
		Much of Borges' best is collected here -- from the brilliant idea behind Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote (in which part of Don Quixote is written anew), to the prototypical Borgesian story of books and infinity, The Library of Babel, to the haunting Funes, the Memorious and The South.
		Ficciones is also of interest for historical reasons -- it was this volume, in these translations, that made the initial (and great) impact.
		The slim volume Ficciones, collecting two books of stories ( The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) and Artifices (1944)), had an enormous impact, and even decades later it easy to see why.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/borgesjl/ficciones.htm (1106 words)

	Borges - Influence: Mark Strand
		Poet and essayist, Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, but raised and educated primarily in the United States and South America.
		He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Reasons for Moving, The Story of our Lives, and Dark Harbor, as well as a critical analysis of the works of the American painter, Edward Hopper.
		Strand's style is a wonderful mixture of psychological aberration and nightmarish dream state, punctuated by a stoic, sometimes aloof resignation by the poet.
	www.themodernword.com /borges/borges_infl_strand.html (505 words)

	Che - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La trama, very short story by J.L. Borges illustrating use of che (in Spanish)
		The word has also spread to southern parts of Portuguese-speaking Brazil.
		Che is a Spanish interjection used commonly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, some parts of Bolivia, Costa Rica, and also in Valencia, Spain (equivalent to the Valencian xe or che, or Ebro-delta Catalan xa: the Valencia CF soccer team is known as "Los Che" or "the Che team".).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Che (367 words)

	Magical Realism In Movies?
		But Borges chooses to emphasize the term "realism" in his understanding of the genre.
		Reuters - South Korea's movie industry ground to a halt on Wednesday, as dozens of stars and hundreds of film workers protested against a government move to cut protection for the industry to smooth free trade talks with the United States.
		It was originally a story, written over a year before the movie.
	brandware.info /info/Magical-Realism-in-Movies%3F (695 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Phoenix
		There are no decent words to name it, but it is understood that all words name it or rather inevitably allude to it." Borges never explicityly says what the Secret is, but if one knows his other story, _The
		Phoenix (city, Arizona), capital city of Arizona, located on the Salt River in the south central part of the state.
		The name of the city, Phoenix, as Richard Hoagland also pointed out, interestingly is the name of the mythical bird which represents the ‘sun’ and is closely associated with the "City of the Sun", Heliopolis.
	fusionanomaly.net /phoenix.html (1519 words)

	Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
		This is the pilgrimage par excellence of our time; the story of an incarnation made by one man, in deep reverence for the Divine Humanity that is daily insulted, buffeted, scourged, beaten and bled in every black man whites insult.
		The Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me &; the first hardcover version of this modern classic published since 1977 – appears in the 45th anniversary year of Griffin's 1959 experimental journey through the Deep South disguised as a Negro.
		GriffinÕs heroic charity and courage are a glory for the church.
	www.wingspress.com /Titles/Black_Like_Me.html (1519 words)

	Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
		In print continuously in various editions since its original publication in 1961, Black Like Me is the extraordinary story of Griffin, a white Texan who in 1959 took some capsules (prescribed by a dermatologist), exposed himself to ultraviolet light under a sunlamp, and stained his skin to make himself appear darker.
		The Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me &; the first hardcover version of this modern classic published since 1977 – appears in the 45th anniversary year of Griffin's 1959 experimental journey through the Deep South disguised as a Negro.
		GriffinÕs heroic charity and courage are a glory for the church.
	www.wingspress.com /Titles/Black_Like_Me.html (2936 words)

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