Thursday, May 27, 2004

Great quote

I've been meaning for months to share this quote that I cut out of a NY Times Magazine article on Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Unfortunately, I can't remember the author of the article, but here's the quote.

"I was in my first year at the University of Michigan when Jorge Luis Borges came to speak. I sat on the floor of a packed auditorium and remember the moment during the questions and answers when a graduate student rose to voice his vehement request for Borges to unequivocally denounce the realist novel. Borges, with his soft, blind stare, resembled an elegant saint levitating in an English suit as he answered, 'Young man, whether we are talking about Henry James or Robbe-Grillet, Conrad or Beckett, all of literature is part of the same dream and one of the few pleasures allowed to us on this earth.'"

I really thought that Borges's comment captured the feelings of our group (and he gives the obligatory nod to HJ). If we didn't already have a great name, then I think "One of the few pleasures" would be a good one for the group.

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