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  1. On A Beheading
    22/8/2010 16:23
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    The pace was immediately breathtaking; fear, pathos, reasoning with inevitability, the mind reels at the possibilites, the horror, the sad ordinariness of it all - yes, we are all the same.

  2. On Borges and Me, and Me
    26/1/2010 21:44
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    I am perplexed; I don't know if I just read a Borges story (one written by Borges) or a story about Borges imagined by someone imagining being Borges or if I just wrote this story and imagined reading it in a circular library.

    The scene of standing between the two blind men reminds me of a Borgesian image: "a candle placed between facing mirrors." But what on earth do I mean by Borgesian?

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