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#202024 - 08/23/11 07:04 PM Borges
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Although it's not his day yet everywhere, and I don't know why they would celebrate a 112th birthday of Borges I just wish to add a short translated poem of his, as by chance I have his poems in from the library. TEXAS Here too. Here as at the other edge Of the hemisphere, an endless plain Where a man's cry dies a lonely death. Here too the Indian, the lasso, the wild horse. Here too the bird that never shows itself, That sings for the memory of one evening Over the rumblings of history; Here too the mystic alphabet of stars Leading my pen over the page to names Not swept aside in the continual Labyrith of days; San Jacinto And that other Thermopylae, the Alamo. Here too the never understood, Anxious, and brief affair that is life. (transl. Mark Strand)
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#202029 - 08/23/11 10:32 PM Re: Borges [Re: BranShea]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Wow, that's really good. Who is this Borges, please?
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#202033 - 08/23/11 11:17 PM Re: Borges [Re: Jackie]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	oh, Jackie, what a sheltered life you lead: Jorge Luis Borges
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#202051 - 08/24/11 11:03 AM Re: Borges [Re: Jackie]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5281 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	Originally Posted By: Jackie Wow, that's really good. Who is this Borges, please? Studied him back in World Culture in College, but must confess I'd forgotten about him. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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#202058 - 08/24/11 11:48 AM Re: Borges [Re: BranShea]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	see also, Collected Fictions, trans. by Andrew Hurley
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#202061 - 08/24/11 02:03 PM Re: Borges [Re: tsuwm]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	I only read some translations of his essays in Dutch and 'The Book of Imaginary Beings'. I didn't know till recently how beautiful is the poetry he wrote. And that he considered himself a poet first, then something else. Thank you tsuwm, I will like to read more ; thanks also to libraries.
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#202070 - 08/24/11 11:32 PM Re: Borges [Re: tsuwm]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Yep; but merci. Edit: OH! I just went to Google; NOW I know why you brought this up today.
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#202072 - 08/25/11 03:17 AM Re: Borges [Re: Jackie]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	Yes, Google's logo motivations and choices are mysterious. I wondered why celebrate the 112th celebraty's birthday?
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#202073 - 08/25/11 04:11 AM Re: Borges [Re: BranShea]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Cause its good to reflect
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#202083 - 08/25/11 06:26 AM Re: Borges [Re: BranShea]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	Originally Posted By: BranShea Yes, Google's logo motivations and choices are mysterious. I wondered why celebrate the 112th celebraty's birthday? Probably because that's what it is this year. Next year we'll celebrate his 113th.
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