Borges - Labyrinths (1641)

[linebaugh]

And lovecraft is spooky Rilke. Replace the angels with cthulu

 

[luka]

Mental

 

[linebaugh]

Take Rilkes most famous bit:

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.

We dont see any connection there?

 

[luka]

Only if you completely blank out abut 90% of the content

 

[version]

"Hostile" only in the sense of not conducive to our happiness/sanity/survival. In the scheme of things, it's "nothing personal".

Yeah, but still a profoundly negative response from the human perspective. Borges is much more ambiguous.

 

[linebaugh]

Only if you completely blank out abut 90% of the content

That could be said for any comparison across authors.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Yeah, but still a profoundly negative response from the human perspective. Borges is much more ambiguous.

Granted, that's true. He's not a nihilist or a misanthrope like HPL was.

 

[version]

"A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. A man of infinite talent."

-- Nabokov on Borges.

 

[luka]

Nabakov is a cunt. Total cunt. Hate him. A fraud.

 

[IdleRich]

"A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. A man of infinite talent."

-- Nabokov on Borges.

• Robbe-Grillet, Alain. Great. A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. Magnificently poetical and original.

Unlike his reviews.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Nabakov is a cunt. Total cunt. Hate him. A fraud.

Hang tight, I'm just getting the salt nice and hot...

 

[IdleRich]

Go on then Luka, why is Nabakov shit? I've always thought the total opposite.

 

[luka]

I couldn't tell you exactly why because he's one of those authors I've just known not to read, had a sixth sense about it

 

[luka]

In my head it's aloof aristocratic disdainfully paring its fingernails

 

[luka]

Concerned with control rather than exploration and discovery

 

[IdleRich]

In my head it's aloof aristocratic disdainfully paring its fingernails

There is an element of truth in this one of your scattershot critiques.

 

[luka]

It's not scattershot it's a single poison dart to the jugular vein

 

[sus]

Does Dissensus like Robbe-Grillet

 

[luka]

Absolutely not

 

[IdleRich]

Yes we do. Although I prefer his films to his books. Probably.