Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man - 1/6

obama got one, this world is upside down!

I found the Library of Babel extremely interesting.

"When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain. It is not strange that time should have confused the words that once represented me with those that were symbols of the fate of he who accompanied me for so many centuries. I have been Homer; shortly, I shall be On One, like Ulysses; shortly, I shall be all men; I shall be dead." (from 'The Immortal')

An image is the mirror, which reflects different identities. The idea for the short story 'Borges y yo' was came from the double looking at him - the alter ego, the other I. The well-known man, a name in some biographical dictionary, and the real person. "So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away - and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man." Influenced by George Berkeley (1685-1753),

Opposite to Perón and later to the junta, his support to liberal causes were considered too ambiguous. "If he thinks like a dinosaur, that has nothing to do with my thinking," said once the Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda. "He doesn't understand a thing about what's happening in the modern world, and he thinks I don't either." Protests against the political repression and the "disappeared". Protest against Falkland Islands War - "Two bald men fighting over a comb" he said.

I agree with you!

Also Tolstoy was not given the prize nor Ghandi.

I agree. Quite disappointingly, Borges never received the Nobel Prize due to purely political reasons.

Yes. Just look at the nobody who won it last time.