There'is a little classic of modern literature that takes on excatly this
startling and provocative notion (and feeling)..of re-creating...with some
provocative turns on i of its own--w the now famous story "Pierre
Menard-Author of Don Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges....It tells (in the form
of a literary essay, about a writer and work that, we might say don't
exist..this "Menard" character ahd, we're told, done everything possible to
recrate Cervantes exact situation, state of mind, etc. before writing Don
Quixote--and then Menard proceeded to write the whole massive thing, all
over again. I'm not gonna attempt to summarize all of the fun Borges has
with this from that point--but I can tell you that it ain't all awe and
excitement! The piece appears in several Borges collections, incluing
"Labyrinths"...
Barry
Eddie Adcock, banjoist and flat-picking guitarist extraordinaire; in
Willis's_America's Music: Bluegrass_:
>
>"...there is a neat thing that takes place in the mind - - when you hit
>upon that note exactly the way
>the guy intended to hit it the first time. Then you can get the idea and
>the feeling and the emotion that caused him to do it. They're not your
>emotions; you're working out of his brain even though he may be dead and
>gone. It does something for you that nothing can do...
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>Jon Weisberger
