Thursday, June 11, 2009

authors, death thereof, etc.

currently: Intelligent Life magazine (ed: frown)

About to attempt to fob this (really wonderful regardless of being wildly indebted to Borges) novel off on someone else, I flipped open to the following:

"For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of 'Is your novel an open work or not?' How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or 'With which of your characters do you identify?' For God's sake, with whom does an author identify? With the adverbs, obviously."

- Umberto Eco, postscript to The Name of the Rose


Bible dipping with post-modernism. This is why people believe in god.

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