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Now this is one of my favourite short stories, although admittedly that's a short list given my tendency to avoid them. For me it spoke about how people who are physically deformed are rejected or considered to be monstrous in character. And then how this affects their behaviour and developing personality. Also as soon as we're reading about a labyrinth and a monster that has to raise what potential for monstrous behaviour we all carry within us depending on the circumstances we experience.

@TheCodeXCantina

Жыл бұрын

I can see these talking points as well! Borges has his zingers. Glad you liked this one

yallz dynamic is hilarious 😂🥳

Do you get the notion that Borges, with the Minotaur's soliloquy, is suggesting that each of us is confined (by choice, ignorance, fate or fear?) to our own house of Asturion, that each “I am” is a solipsistic existence, and that wherever we turn we are still within the labyrinth of our own incommunicable experiences? No matter how different each situation or setting appears within this house, they are all repetitions, and each reflects in all the others. As an attempt to escape, we play diversionary games with imaginary companions, we exhaust ourselves in frenetic escapades. Though everything else repeats ad infinitum, the wandering “I” senses it is unique, as is its polar opposite, the intricate and inscrutable Sun. In the end we yearn to be free from this vast, yet confining house that has become a place of unbearable tedium, and in the end we gladly yield to our Redeemer.

@TheCodeXCantina

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Ah, that’s an interesting angle. I like it

You guys truly bewilder me. One moment you're delivering outstanding insights into, say, The Brothers Karamazov, and the next moment you're all aglow over Star Wars fan fiction 🤣 As for fiction seen from the point of view of the villain being something of a recent thing, I'd use as perhaps a refuting example, Richard III.

@TheCodeXCantina

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We have no discernible standards 😂😂 Oh for sure! Villain pov have been around for a while. Probably very subjective statement that there is an increase in these types of stories lately. I wonder if there’s a way to get an actual stat on if that is true 🤔

@BlueBaron3339

Жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina I too never went though the useless chore of developing discernable standards either. Many an expression of disapproving horror on the faces of friends when I'd follow that "So, what are you reading?" question with The Odyessy one week and Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Dart the next. By the time I could insist that both were splendid works of fantasy I'd find myself suddenly alone in the room. 😢

Does anyone else see that Saltburn is inspired by this? Thoughts?

bravo! borges was internet before internet exists!

@TheCodeXCantina

11 ай бұрын

Borges is the best!!!

Because of this story and my own theories about the Minotaur I have an Asterion tattoo on my fore arm

@TheCodeXCantina

2 ай бұрын

That's pretty awesome

Totally agree with Krypto - I ALWAYS get more out of a reread...multiple rereads even!

@TheCodeXCantina

Жыл бұрын

Discord response incoming

@dugldoo

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Nabakov, Ecco and C.S. Lewis stress that to be a good reader you must be a rereader.

This analysis taught me that it was the Joker that shot Batman's parents. Clearly I know nothing (though I do know it is DC, haha), I always thought it was just some random act of violence. 😅 Anyway, I see that I have missed Borges, Poe, and an Italian Christmas!!! I must change this.

@TheCodeXCantina

Жыл бұрын

Let’s just say there are things that one of us may say that aren’t worth addressing 😂

Far too much verbal meandering to follow in any meaningful way . . . .

@TheCodeXCantina

10 ай бұрын

Sorry