On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:48 AM, John Francis Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess it was a mistake to bring up Borges to a geek. Sorry.
On the contrary, I would guess I am a bigger Borges fan than you; I have read through my three Collected Fictions/Nonfictions/Poetry many times, and have written Borges pastiche ( http://www.gwern.net/fiction/Menard ). What I object to is bad philosophizing about mind; Funes is entertaining, but the story is a contradiction in terms - as Borges says in _This Craft of Verse_, metaphor is at the heart of even the simplest language, so how could a Funes speak *at all*? (Did Borges actually believe Funes would exist or that he would live in such a way? It's not very important, but I don't see why he would. Borges wrote about many things he did not believe in - his ability to handle ideas lightly and compare him is one of his most admirable traits.) -- gwern http://www.gwern.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
