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2024-02-23-233246

2024-02-23 by csilverman

On the thirtieth of April, 1941, along with the sugared cake I allowed myself to
add a bottle of Argentine cognac. Carlos Argentino tasted it, pronounced it
"interesting," and, after a few drinks, launched into a glorification of modern
man.

"I view him," he said with a certain unaccountable excitement, "in his inner
sanctum, as though in his castle tower, supplied with telephones, telegraphs,
phonographs, wireless sets, motion-picture screens, slide projectors,
glossaries, timetables, handbooks, bulletins..."

He remarked that for a man so equipped, actual travel was superfluous. Our
twentieth century had inverted the story of Mohammed and the mountain; nowadays,
the mountain came to the modern Mohammed.


2024-02-23-234413

2024-02-23 by csilverman

On the thirtieth of April, 1941, along with the sugared cake I allowed myself to
add a bottle of Argentine cognac. Carlos Argentino tasted it, pronounced it
"interesting," and, after a few drinks, launched into a glorification of modern
man.

"I view him," he said with a certain unaccountable excitement, "in his inner
sanctum, as though in his castle tower, supplied with telephones, telegraphs,
phonographs, wireless sets, motion-picture screens, slide projectors,
glossaries, timetables, handbooks, bulletins..."

He remarked that for a man so equipped, actual travel was superfluous. Our
twentieth century had inverted the story of Mohammed and the mountain; nowadays,
the mountain came to the modern Mohammed.

—Jorge Luis Borges: The Aleph


2024-02-22-221910

2024-02-22 by csilverman

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