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.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Death and the Compass

Here we go something with some thrill to it. This short story was a detective mystery filled with thrills, chills and murder. The title of the story is a little deceiving because the story doesn't quite mention a compass but it does have death. But after taking a step back and reading the story again there is a circular symmetry between the crimes which would hypothetically be the compass.
This story reminded me a lot about this mystery movie with Denzel Washington, I believe it was called the Bone Collector. Maybe we should watch it in class its wonder full. Anyway Denzel is a detective who gets paralyzed on a scene and is forever layed to bed. He is one of the stop detectives in the world and has done the best detective work in the world. Anyway it turned out that a cereal killer is leading Denzel to his death by planting clues in mysteries. Denzel cant figure out who is the killer trying to finally kill until the last murder. This clue leads him to the conclusion that the final murder will be him.
This was a great story and I am surprised by this one. I wouldn't expect this from Borges and I look forward to seeing more thrilling stories like this one.

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