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I’m enjoying reading one essay a day. So far my favorites have been the opening essay, “The Nothingness of Personality,” “A Profession of Literary Faith,” and “The Duration of Hell.”
— Sep 13, 2026 05:21PM
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Derek Bartholomew
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“I have tried to rescue from oblivion a subaltern horror: the vast, contradictory Library, whose vertical wildernesses of books run the incessant risk of changing into others that affirm, deny, and confuse everything like a delirious god.”
— “The Total Library”
I wonder how Borges would respond to AI.
It’s a damn shame that he isn’t alive to write about these things.
— 14 hours, 8 min ago
— “The Total Library”
I wonder how Borges would respond to AI.
It’s a damn shame that he isn’t alive to write about these things.
Derek Bartholomew
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I’ve only read the first few essays, and I am hooked!
Having read Labyrinths a few years ago, I must admit that I was intimidated by Borges, by his erudition, by his at times esoteric style.
But so far his essays are quite accessible, a pleasure to read.
I also bought the Penguin deluxe editions of Collected Fictions and Selected Poems, and I look forward to grazing on these books in the coming years.
— Sep 06, 2026 06:48PM
Having read Labyrinths a few years ago, I must admit that I was intimidated by Borges, by his erudition, by his at times esoteric style.
But so far his essays are quite accessible, a pleasure to read.
I also bought the Penguin deluxe editions of Collected Fictions and Selected Poems, and I look forward to grazing on these books in the coming years.