02 Şubat 2023

Borges and Reading

"Borges: [...] If you begin a book, if at the end of fifteen or twenty pages you feel that the book is a task for you, then lay that book and lay that author aside for a time because it won't do you any good. 

[...]

Burgin: If enjoyment is paramount, then what do you suppose it is that gives one a sense of enjoyment from a book? 

Borges: There may be two opposite explanations to that. The individual is getting away from his personal circumstances and finding his way into another world, but at the same time, perhaps that other world interests him because it's nearer his inner self than his circumstances."

Jorge Luis Borges, The Last Interview and Other Conversations 

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