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Aug. 24th, 2011 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniToday Google celebrates my favourite author, Jorge Luis Borges...the blind man in the library who dreamt the stuff he couldn't see and wrote down what he had dreamt. He would have been 112...
"The Google Doodle shows a complex scene of an aging man overlooking great architecture from behind glass. Study the illustration and you will find a library on the right and images from “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a short story of his in which Borges describes the future in multiple ways. But, of course, he had never enjoyed the wonders of a digital computer, so even his scenes of a far-flung future have a distinctly retro feel."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0824/Jorge-Luis-Borges-The-man-behind-the-Google-Doodle
And on Gallica (the online catalog of the BnF) it's now possible to read the first issue of Proa (1925) which was Borges' magazine.
"The Google Doodle shows a complex scene of an aging man overlooking great architecture from behind glass. Study the illustration and you will find a library on the right and images from “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a short story of his in which Borges describes the future in multiple ways. But, of course, he had never enjoyed the wonders of a digital computer, so even his scenes of a far-flung future have a distinctly retro feel."
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0824/Jorge-Luis-Borges-The-man-behind-the-Google-Doodle
And on Gallica (the online catalog of the BnF) it's now possible to read the first issue of Proa (1925) which was Borges' magazine.