Fialka emphasises that media reports saying his group has “finished” the book are wrong. “We didn’t end. The last sentence of the book ends midsentence and then it picks up at the front of the book. It’s cyclical. It never ends."
This November, they started back on page three.
"There is no next book,” Fialka told me. “We’re only reading one book. Forever.
Who is this Borges guy? Im not a literature person, but ive gone most of my life without hearing about him and the second i got to cohost it seems like everyone is stanning him like a kpop band.
Is it likely he inspired a more famous author ive heard of?
Thank you for asking! If you're not a literature person (or from Argentina), I can see why you've never heard of the guy.
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer, possibly the most well-known Argentine writer of the 20th century. He was a prominent figure in Latin American literary traditions and his works were translated to a bunch of languages, including English, which got him international renown.
When you were looking at Grishkin's underlined Russian eye, I studied the skull beneath the skin. When your uncorseted bust was promising pneumatic bliss, I mastered the anguish of the marrow. While you wasted your days in Grishkin's drawing room in pursuit of a feline smell, I crawled between dry ribs. And now that the Abstract Entities are circumambulating your charm and the Brazilian Jaguar is at the gate you have the audacity to come to me to keep your metaphysics warm?
"Whispers of Immortality," paraphrased
Regardless of his actual marital status, he just had divorced vibes from birth.
I'm rereading his collections and my man has been divorced since "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", at the very least