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the lottery of Babylon 5/5

the shape of the sword 5/5

finally about to start ficciones!

feels like old hollywood filmmaking all put together in a book.

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: 5/5.

I had to read then reread this one. One of the more interesting and powerful works of fiction I’ve (ever) read…. 6/5

One of the schools goes so far as to deny the existence of time; it argues that the present is undefined and indefinite, the future has no reality except as present hope, and the past has no reality except as present recollection. Another posits that all time has already passed, so that our life is but the crepuscular memory, or crepuscular reflection, doubtlessly distorted and mutilated, of an irrecoverable process

In a quandary I read 'Funes, His Memory' then I found out Borges was a fan of Pinochet, which has totally put me off reading further
should ones political views taint ones reading? Pinochet was a fascist dictator,he authorised the deaths and disappearance of thousands from 38 Londres street Santiago which was used as a detention centre following its forced acquisition from the Chilean Socialist Party.