read us a bedtime stowy

Ah, yes, reading a borgesian lexicon to the wee'uns. Was it old Jorge Luis hisself who wrote that he read the 10th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica when he was a young lad in the Argentine. He read it "like a novel". Or mayhaps he meant like Novalis' fragmentary and encyclopedic Heinrich von Ofterdingen? Or am I am confusing this with that famous Argentine author, William Henry Hudson, who wrote Green Mansions auf Englisch. Somewhere along the line, of course, my grenouillian narratology got run over by my shlovskian device.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.