we love you too, bryan. now just sit here and have some bread while we call you a cab, you crazy colorado savage.

re: sestinas: there's a cool one here and you can generate the framework here.

thank you, adrian, for that awesome dose of dolphin sex talk. i've missed that greatly in the month or so since tasp...

library of babel.
am so excited to do this story - and promise to answer jacob's question, once i sleep on it, but let me just go against all of our seminar rules (as usual) and NOT build on the thing in the middle.
i thought one of the coolest parts of the story was on page 84 and 85 (working out of our copy of Ficciones), where he notes that "each book is unique, irreplaceable, but (inasmuch as the Library is total) there are always several hundreds of thousands of imperfect facsimiles - of works which differ only by one letter or one comma." i like that - it sort of offsets (very slightly) the nihilism (i know i'm using that word incorrectly - correct me, please?) of the rest of the piece. this is what it reminds me of. i know the rest of you will laugh, but i'm hoping tae-yeoun will get it - it reminds me of computer solitaire. see, i have this compulsion where if i start a game, i don't want to close the window, even if i have work to do or even if i'm terribly bored of the game, because i'm worried that i'm never going to get to play this game again, that once i close the window it will disappear into the ether and never come up again. and, statistically, it probably won't - but a imperfect facsimile will, and that makes me relax and stop shaking. this book has changed my life! so many wasted hours of solitaire playing, regained! thank you jorge luis!

posted by Kelsey   [11:12 PM]

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