Lotsa stuff happening so I’m a bit behind in my reading the past couple of days. In Borges’ Ficciones, I’m midway through a rereading of The Garden of Forking Paths, something I read a few years back as coursework. My initial feeling is not one of dejavu or recognition or even the ending spoiled because it’s known. The overwhelming impression is more one of gee, this one flows as story after reading the preceding seven puzzles. It’s more clearly a mystery, more obviously an action adventure, more character-focused within the labyrinth of story whereas most of the previous pieces were random ideas that Borges appears to have been struck with and stuck with to carry them into a place where only he could conceive of going. Back later on this.
Haven’t started Bellow’s Henderson The Rain King. Well, I have, but only a page or two and while I enjoyed the manner of opening story, it’s hardly enough to write about yet.
Give me a day or so and I’ll be back into the groove.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology