The Stranger, April 23rd, 2003
IN JORGE LUIS BORGES' story "The Aleph," the pedant Carlos Argentino Daneri evokes modern man, "`in his studio-laboratory... supplied with telephones, telegraphs, phonographs, radiotelephone apparatus, cinematographic equipment, magic lanterns, glossaries, timetables, compendiums, bulletins...'" Daneri was writing a horrible epic poem that claimed to map the entire world, and his inspiration was the Aleph in his basement: an entity, a ball of light, that showed all places and angles of the world at once. It's such an amazing image--one that eventually calls forth one of Borges' most amazing l...
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