An article by Borges in defence of Bouvard and Pecuchet, written in 1954 seeks to answer some of the criticisms levelled against that magnificent work. I personally have a feeling that my almost reverent appraisal of that work has got something to do with a faint foreboding I have always carried with in me. It is like, I always tend to repeat to myself in moments solitude - That one either has to be born a genius to change the world or stupid enough to swallow whatever is. I don't belong to the former, so my lot is to swallow, however bitter whatever...
Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
And the Scheme of Things...
Indian people are inclined to consider the universal seriously in expressing their ideas of things. This can be easily seen in the fact of their verbal usage in which they have so great an inclination to use abstract nouns. In Sanskrit, an abstract noun is formed by adding -ta function doPopup(windowTitle, windowUrl, windowFeatures) { var popupWindow; windowUrl='nlReader.dll?BookID=39028&FileName='+windowUrl; popupWindow=window.open(windowUrl,windowTitle,windowFeatures); if( window.focus )...