Beth the librarian
By stephendeedlocust
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? anand bose The Librarians Secret
If you want to know Borges, yours must be the effort". Miniatures of a
giant, NY times- 1997.
In a dilapidated journal of Buenos Ares standing by the sheer strength
of quixotic friends, Borges wrote a parable titled the literary
quip.
In a rare but common morning called the literary sunrise, there stood
in vast expanse a strange and secret space, gigantic, but deaf as the
stone that speaks silently to a secret wish of architecture called the
tower. All the people who adorned the tower never had the time to
translate the common language of the people-literature. The excuse,
being the writing of a hieroglyph and its puzzle to contain the form of
all speech as the labyrinth and figures of an old stranger called
sphinx. Borges started wondering how to translate this strange dream of
writing into another's dreaming. This Borges surmised ruefully that it
was a part of great dream. The time spends to write was another's
secret and could be written down in the manual called the librarian's
labyrinth. A strange nature of possession overtook Borges and he found
wondering why the labyrinth was deciphered as an ordinary thing by
another who never wrote the words as time and the universe! So Borges
decided to collect this strange nature of thought as book that was
writing. With this strange thought in mind, he added a footnote, the
unfinished! With a little doubt and comic humour, Borges added what
could not be added ?Act of God in the art of literature!
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