What was your favorite story by him?
>>8011538
Is this guy really that good?
>>8011538
none
>>8011542
How good?
>>8011538
El Aleph
Undr
The Garden of Forking Paths.
The one with the tigers fighting each other with knives in the circular infinite dimension.
>>8011973
kek
the south
I hated every single one of his stories. I wanted to kill myself after every paragraph. Shit author.
The one with the name dropping.
>>8011973
This was the one with the Quixote scholar and the Encyclopaedia Britannica he found in a crack in a
Buenos Aires sidewalk right?
I have only read Ficciones, but it's gotta be Tlon. The Lottery of Babylon, The Library of Babel, and The Garden of Forking Paths all come close though.
What should I read next?
The map is not the territory
>>8012015
>>8012010
Aleph, The Immortal is my absolute favorite.
>>8012015
There is a very interesting story by Jorge Luis Borges called "The Sect of the Phoenix." Allow me to recapitulate. Borges starts out by writing: "There is no human group in which members of the sect do not appear. It is also true that there is no persecution or rigor they have not suffered and perpetrated." He continues,
...the rite is the only religious practice observed by the sectarians. The rite constitutes the Secret. This Secret...is transmitted from generation to generation. ...The act in itself is trivial, momentary, and requires no description. ...The Secret is sacred, but is always somewhat ridiculous; its performance is furtive and even clandestine and the adept do not speak of it. 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 explicitly says what the Secret is, but if one knows his other story, "The Aleph," one can put these two together and realize that the Aleph is the experience of the Secret of the Cult of the Phoenix.
>>8012018
>The Immortal
Seconding. The bit where the troglodyteis revealed to be Homeris the most /lit/erary plot twist I ever read.
>>8012031
>Secret...
>requires no description...
>sacred
>somewhat ridiculous
Pierre Menard
The Circular Ruins
The Lottery in Babylon
The Library of Babel
Death and the Compass
>>8012048
>@23:00
https://ia801304.us.archive.org/10/items/422HeckmanPN2014_201510/422-HeckmanPN2014.mp3
>https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-422-visualizing-the-psychedelic-experience-using-computer-graphics/
Exploring
Icaros
Electronic Dance Music
Funes, The Immortal, The Zahir, Three Versions of Judas, Undr
Theologians.
>>8012090
"Hello"...
>>8012135
It's me...
>>8012125
>>8012145
There's such a difference between us...
>>8012168
Speaking of best choices
I dot my e twice for the win
>>8012145
https://youtu.be/gZzAeYWXFpk
>>8012212
http://theparty.netraver.org.za
>>8012135
>>8012031
Huh? The Aleph is aboutorgasm? It works I guess
>>8011975
My choice as well. High time for a reread.
>>8012112
>>8012119
>These two posts in succession.
What more proof do you need?
>>8012015
Is it weird that this just gave me a boner?
>>8013685
What kind of boner?
>>8013697
of the weirdest kind
a bibliophile phallis
>>8013712
Like, you got turned on by the idea of a giant map covering everything? That it?
>>8013697
A circular one
>>8013718
No, more so from the fact that the quotation is false, but it has a real-life (albeit fantasy) source while also having material imprecations.
>>8013727
Interesting. Tell me, what are your other fetishes?
>>8014855
>>8014868
Eudaimonia now dog
Why are you posting shit coachella pictures on /lit/ ?
>>8012010
Yiss Tlon. kind of weird reading it because it makes specific references to Memphis and Armenia, which aren't talked about that often, but I'm an Armenian in Memphis so it's like o shit
>>8014967
You've got to be kidding, Memphis was the fucking capital of Egypt and Armenia is brought up whenever someone needs to bully the turks
>>8011538
el hacedor
All thos feels reading that story.
Tlön, The Aleph, and An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain
>>8014965
Can you put 2 and 2 together
>>8015058
Me and you ?
>>8015098
Anything but singluar
amirite ity?
>>8015098
Extra tastey
>It's not how you look, but how you cook
Never own me, yeauh ?
>>8015098
Your mom and me?
>>8015123
George and Oi
>>8012035
Couldn't believe my eyes ?
>>8015264
Couldn't believe my ears ?
>>8012035
Couldn't believe my luck ?
>>8012228
SO MUCH LOVE !!!
>>8015342
Couldn't believe you're here !
>>8015386
That's your ticket to everything
>>8015396
Your colors are Rado yo !
>>8015421
https://youtu.be/ir8OsvXPLEs
>>8015123
Been, waiting ?
>>8015145
Any tips ?
>>8015396
Staring at the Sun?
>>8015386
Believe it
>>8015504
Z to the A to the Sea ?
>>8015504
Jump
https://youtu.be/kILVFRlUtT8
>>8015561
Best
>>8012212
>>8014982
godamn calm yourself i'm talking about memphis, tn, as it's referenced in the story and turkish-armenian relations aren't a part of daily conversation in the south, which is fine
>>8015571
>>8012028
hey... .HEYYY STOP THAT!!!!! AIIEIEIE
>>8011538
The one about the old king and the one-sided coin. What was it called again? I never see it mentioned. I think it's from one of his later collections.
>>8011542
A cold and distant genius, yes.
Deutches Requiem
>>8016022
The Disk
For me, as a latin american, "El sur". FUCKING EPIC MAN. I read it, then I read it again, then i bought the audiobook, then I read it some more and now I listen to it on every trip I take.
The rest of his work is QUITE DENSE.
>>8018002
I love how personal that story seems, like he saw himself as Dahlmann and desired the same :'(
>>8011538
the immortal
