Monday, May 11, 2009

Nian Liu

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Book of Sand The Book of Sand by Borges had to do with the topic obsession with books. Since there is no beginning or end to the book, the r...

Janie Cherestal

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I found Borges' "Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv," to be rather confusing. In this story, Borges uses very long and complex sen...

Nian Liu

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The Mirror and the Mask This story felt like one of those child folklores where there are three reoccurring events that happen and in the en...

The Library of Babel

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What started off as a something positive in the story, the Library in Babel became something horrific. People who admired the library found ...

Nian Liu

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The Zahir, The House of Asterion This story reminded me of the “House of Leaves” because of the description of the labyrinth and how in the ...

Nian Liu

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Death and the Compass In “Death and the Compass”, Borges presciently anticipates developments in contemporary physics and scientific thought...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

Nian Liu

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The Garden of Forking Paths This story reminded me of the house of leaves when Borges started talking about mazes of mazes and with Dr. Tsun...

Nian Liu

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The Lottery in Babylon Another interesting story about a society in Babylon where lottery rules the society and evidently overtakes the whol...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Kristin Todd

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I found House of Leaves chapters 1-4 to be very interesting and intriguing.  At the same time, though, I don't know what to expect becau...

Janie Cherestal

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I found Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths" to be one his more engaging short stories, for it described a man who, while being p...
Friday, May 8, 2009

Alyson Bernero

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The House of Asterion is a story that focuses on the life of many who lives in a house with no limits. Like many of Borges' stories, th...
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Alyson Bernero

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I thought The Other by Borges was one of his most creative stories. The concept of the man seeing his past self was very complicated and co...

Alyson Bernero

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The Garden of Forking Paths was yet another story by Borges with the theme of a labyrinth. This story however, was much more suspensful tha...

Alyson Bernero

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I think that the Library of Babel is the short story that most obviously reflects the theme of the labyrinth. Borges uses the infinite numbe...
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Alyson Bernero

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The Lottery in Babylon was an interesting story that truly fits the saying, damned if you do, damned if you don't. The people of Babylon...

Alyson Bernero

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The Zahir was yet another example of the similarities between Borges writing and the book House of Leaves. The main character and narrator ...

Alyson Bernero

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The Mirror and the Mask was another interesting story by Borges. It was slightly different than a lot of the other stories he writes. This s...

Alyson Bernero

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The Book of Sand is another one of Borges' stories which reminded me of House of Leaves. Just like Johnny Traunt in House of Leaves, the...

Alyson Bernero

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I found Borges' story, Man on Pink Corner to be very exciting. The first thing that came to mind while reading it, was that it reminded ...

Alyson Bernero

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Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv was definately one of my least favorite stories of Borges'. The title I felt, basically told all of the ...

Alyson Bernero

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Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Inequities was the short story that I presented. I found it quite confusing at first, but after reading it over I...

Alyson Bernero

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Death and the Compass was definately one of my favorite stories by Borges. I especially liked that it was written as somewhat of a mystery. ...

Nian Liu

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The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim Once again, Borges mentions things I am not really clear about. He starts off naming Philip Guedalla, then Mir B...

Nian Liu

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Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius I didn’t really enjoy reading this story because it seemed as if I was reading about something I have no idea abo...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Michael Lampasona

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This story begins at a bar, with the patrons doing the tango. A man called the Yardmaster walks in, and he is heckled and shoved by all the...

Janie Cherestal

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I enjoyed reading Borges’ “The Other” because the aspect of someone meeting the past version of themselves was pretty interesting and gave t...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Janie Cherestal

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I felt that Borges’ “Library of Babel” was a relatively interesting short story. The beginning where Borges described in detail the elements...

Michael Lampasona

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I did not quite understand this story at first. I could not understand why the narrator is running from Captain Richard Madden. As the sto...