The blog for SUNY Binghamton's Spring'09 COLI 214B 02 Literature and Society Class. Chapter summaries, analyses and discussion of prescribed texts written by students.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Carly Cooper

This story probably has most of the aspects of a short story that is boring and difficult to read. It starts on one topic and moves quickly to other topics with hardly any indication of why it is moving from one the the other (ex. starting with Bioy and Uqbar to the planet Tlon to a story about coins, etc...). The writing in the story reminded me immediatly of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, the way it is kind of choppy and also talks about things that the reader clearly has no idea about, or the way a lot of the topics and names written about are not in english. Another reminder of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler was the fact the the encyclopida was false and the book was false and the essay was false and the information about the planet was false. It is almost as if becasue everything clearly isn't real and becuase people have made things up jsut to mess with others it isnt even worth writing about and definently is not worth reading about. Another thing I noticed was that again the story of 1001 nights is mentioned and i realized tha Jorge Luis Borges must really find meaning in this tory bdcause he mentions it in almost everything he writes. My question is, what is this story really about? what is its point/conclusion?

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