Idk how explain but the way JLB speak English is similar to the way he speak Spanish,like the same flows and pauses in the sentences.

Great work! Thank you! Borges is a pure god of literature

This is a perfectly fine Nobel prize acceptance speech 🙂

Well I never quite expected JLB to sound like this. Very interesting.

No doubt Borges was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century

Borges pares down the essence of reading, literature, philosophy and books.

“A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent.” Mark Rothko

Our meetings with books create a reality each time we read them. Something that did not exist in the books themselves.

If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself. -Bohumil Hrabal, from Too Loud a Solitude

Amazing. Thank you for sharing this sir.

His joke about buying too many new books is especially poignant as by the time of this talk he was completely blind…

He sounds Irish at times to me…

Excellent

Strange how Irish he sounds.

Where can I listen whole lecture?

Does anyone know the source for the Plato quote at

What is very interesting is that many of the Classical criticisms of books mentioned here are now done of other types of visual or written media, with books as a

That’s it? He’s cut off in the middle of an idea…is this to make the video more digestible for TikTok brains?