estoy en la biblioteca de babel

[kleenexwoman]

We're doing Borges in Freed's class. Today, we discovered that everyone's copies of The Library of Babel and The Garden of Forking Paths are all translated slightly differently. None of us realized this until we'd all spent fifteen minutes arguing over whether Borges was suggesting that time was sentient or a figment of the imagination or both or neither.

drworm and I have been attempting to watch "Sapphire and Steel." We got through the first episode and have been watching bits of pieces of the second while doing other things. It's very strange and slow and low-budget and is kind of like watching a transcript of a dream someone had; there are some parts that make sense in a logical way, some parts that make sense in a magical/archetypical way, and some parts that would probably make sense if the viewer had information that they're not given. Strangely, the second episode that we've been half-watching already makes much more sense than the first episode we paid attention to. It's definitely not like anything else I've ever watched. ...Sammi said it reminded her of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

I desperately want to go to this, because it seems to offer an opportunity to party and drink heavily with middle-aged ladies who share at least one of my current major interests, and I've always had a better time drinking heavily with middle-aged ladies than I have with groups of people my own age. Perhaps another year.

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[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

The prof was as surprised as we were, so I'm assuming it was in fact the ghost of Borges, who has nothing better to do than to hang around classrooms where his works are being discussed. (Actually, if I were the ghost of Borges, I would spend as much time as I could messing with impressionable college students.)

Oooooh, crazy 1970s ideas of the future? I am so there. (It isn't necessary to watch them in order, right? I'm getting fed up with our progress on the second one and am considering skipping it for now.)

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

"In the future . . . disco will still suck."

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Disco has always been fucking awesome.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

I know (am a closet fan) (like the fusion of it and heavy metal and punk in the late Seventies to create sonic perfection), but the phrase "Disco Sucks", especially on a T-shirt, has also always been equally as fucking awesome.