Friday, October 23, 2009

Borgesian Library Acquisition #7564

I know one thing for sure: Borges should have won a Nobel Prize.

Speaking of Borges, here are the opening lines from a new book at the library entitled Now Won:

Always talk with the person you're talking with; always be with the person you are being with. Monologues, arguments with the absent, and absent presence deprive us of opportunities to build gratitude and reverence for ourselves and others.

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Borgesian Library Acquisition #7373

Title: Questing for the Authentic in the Self and the Other

Opening Lines: To grow up is to exchange innocence for naïveté. A presence that is mostly absent, delusion is dilution.