oh lordy

[likethebeer]

I've been added by 2 people (and I added back). I do believe that this type of rain has not shown on me since the wee-beginnings of this here lj (I'm thinking coconuthead and livsmama, although sacramentalist, erisreg & seattleforge come to mind). That's ok, anyway, since I usually barely deal with the pressure.

Um. I was going to say something but forgot what it was. I'm reading Borges, does that count for anything?

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count for anything?

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

does to me,..;)

Re: count for anything?

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Hey, Reg! I just finished "The Garden of Forking Paths". I'm trying to figure out about lives in labyrinths and whether god or fate is a lottery (a la "The Lottery of Babylon"--I think it may be).

It's nice to read this stuff again. I look forward to the other stories I haven't read (the reason why I bought his collected fictions).

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Yay, Borges. I think he's great, but when I try to describe him, I lose something.

"He wrote s short story, about a writer's essays . He likes to make up background material. This writer's final essay logically proves that Judas was the actual Christ. Because he sacrificed himself to eternal damnation."

"That doesn't sound right."

Appropriate

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

You (http://likethebeer.livejournal.com/342477.html)got me thinking about going ahead and buying his collected fictions, after all.

Yeah, I was telling somebody about "Tlon, Ugbar, Orbus Tertius" the other day, but I didn't capture it (the story where a world is invented--a fictional world that is the mythology of a fictional place--forgot that part, too). I remember writing to somebody the first time I read his stories and saying that they made me feel like a dog constantly tilting its head in curiosity. Still do.

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

Reading Borges is on my unwritten "to do" list...

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

He's fun. I'm glad I got to check him out. The first time I read him was a combination of a collection of short stories sitting in a book, being at my bf's place at the time, and being bored. Glad I took it up.

I've been added by 2 people

[lynedd.livejournal.com]

Hrm, make it three? *waves* I followed you back from erisreg's flist.

It never rains in this place, but it pours...

Re: I've been added by 2 people

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Hey--sorry it took me 4 days to add ya back. I was off to the wilds. Something that never happens much around here. Hope I prove an interesting excursion.