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Mar. 17th, 2009 04:00 amAll Borges questions were answered by reading much more Borges.
"The Immortal" compares interestingly with "The Wanderings of Oisin," my favorite Yeats poem (maybe tied with "Meru" - which is not far off from the story either).
When you read things over it's strange what sticks out - "Death and the Compass" was kind of drab to me, while "The Circular Ruins" left me awed, and I think those were close to the most and least impressive, respectively, last time round. Sometimes you spend these things without knowing, sometimes they've changed in the dark.
"The Immortal" compares interestingly with "The Wanderings of Oisin," my favorite Yeats poem (maybe tied with "Meru" - which is not far off from the story either).
When you read things over it's strange what sticks out - "Death and the Compass" was kind of drab to me, while "The Circular Ruins" left me awed, and I think those were close to the most and least impressive, respectively, last time round. Sometimes you spend these things without knowing, sometimes they've changed in the dark.