Ya tenemos al primer invitado a la Liguilla vía repechaje, se trata de Santos Laguna, que se impuso en casa al Atlético de San Luis. Los laguneros hicieron válida su condición de favorito como quinto lugar de la tabla general ante el duodécimo sembrado, el cual le plantó cara en el Estadio Corona y de paso Carlos Acevedo fue elogiado por Jorge Campos, quien se une a la lista de “fans” que piden al guardameta de Torreón para la Selección Mexicana.
El Atlético de San Luis fue un equipo incómodo en toda la extensión de la expresión, pues desde el inicio renunció al ataque y se encerró en su propio campo, de modo que el primer juego de la fase del repechaje se tornó aburridito, como cualquier otro partido de temporada regular.
Los elogios de Jorge Campos a Carlos Acevedo
Santos sufrió hasta que consiguió su primer gol, pero antes batalló y dio opción al Atlético de San Luis, que apostaba por un contragolpe o en llevar el juego a la tanda de penales, por lo que la opción más peligrosa en el primer tiempo para los potosinos fue un centro que fue bien cortado por Carlos Acevedo.
“Este sí sale, aquí está el portero de la Selección… en un futuro”, dijo Jorge Campos después de que Guillermo Ochoa fuera criticado por no salir a cortar un centro que le costó el 2-0 a México contra Canadá en la eliminatoria de la Concacaf rumbo a Qatar 2022.
Sin embargo, al minuto 65, después de un montón de jugadas frustradas en el área, Santos encontró el gol que rompió a la zaga potosina en una descolgada que dejó solito a Ayrton Preciado, quien por fin venció a Marcelo Barovero.
“If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. May heaven exist, though my place be in hell.”--”The Library of Babel"
I am reading Ficciones currently, and I am speechless. It was recommended to me from a friend of mine, and I had no clue what I was getting into. DAMN!
My fav ones right now are The library of Babel and The Circular Ruins. The latter one blew my fucking mind. Now, I see from where does Christopher Nolan gets his ideas!
Where fantasy means reality, Jorge Luis Borges makes his appearance. JLB is not bound by the physical laws. Infinity is just not a hypothetical concept to him but a reality. Reading his stories makes you feel the intangible as tangible.
Have you ever read fantasy fiction which blew your mind? Merry Christmas!
These two authors leave me pondering for many days after I finish one of their short stories. Borges especially is what I would consider an immensely intellectual author, while Chiang is easier to read, but always tackles a very interesting idea and develops it wonderfully.
Any suggestions? Doesn't have to be sci-fi or fantasy.
I don’t know if this post will be suitable for this subreddit but lately I’ve been wanting to express my love for the short stories of Borges.
I discovered my passion for reading a little late in my life, maybe 5 years ago. Since then I’ve read many books and I believe that I have solidified my list of favorite authors and in that list Borges appears.
To The Aleph and The Zahir
Thank you Borges for the aleph because thanks to that short story I now understand how to appreciate everything around me. Even when I feel small and insignificant in this vast universe, with the help of my two alephs (my eyes) I can create tasteless poetry like Carlos Argentino Daneri with everything that I see. Time doesn’t wait for anybody and certainly will not wait for me. From the description of seeing everything at the same time, I go to see only one thing and dive into my obsession with the Zahir. The Zahir is something that draws our attention and consumes it until that’s the only thing in our minds. For Borges the Zahir was a coin, for some, a tiger for others, maybe vices. For me the Aleph and the Zahir are two opposites and two different interpretations of infinity.
The Library of Babel and The Book of Sand
Again these two short stories are two sides of the same coin for me. The library of babel is this monstrous universe with an infinite amount of books while the book of sand is one book with an infinite number of pages.
The Secret Miracle
This story is by far my favorite one. Besides some regular themes that Borges used to write about like loneliness and infinity, this story is a little unconventional for his style. I find it to be more of a drama. The story follows a Jewish man who lived in Prague and is sentenced to death during WWII. The only regret that he had was not finishing his novel “The Enemies”; while he was in prison, he asked God for more time to finish his novel. In the final part of the story when the protagonist is about to be shot 4 times by a firing squad.
Before the order was given, the physical universe stopped
The protagonist had one year to finish his novel and he had to do it by memory. He lived in a frozen picture for an entire year. “He came to love the courtyard, the prison…” This part changed my life entirely. How would our lives change if we could observe every frame of our life for a year? Would we appreciate more things that seem meaningless because we don’t pay attention to them?.
I could talk about all of his stories
... keep reading on reddit ➡A man who, as Voltaire wished, cultivates his garden,
The one who is grateful that music exists on earth,
The one who discovers an etymology with pleasure,
Two workers in a Southern café, enjoying a silent game of chess,
The potter pondering on a colour and a shape,
A typographer who sets accurately this page, which he may dislikes,
A woman and a man reading the final tercets of a certain canto,
The one who is stroking a sleeping animal,
The one who justifies, or seeks to justify, an injustice done to him,
The one who is grateful for Stevenson’s existence,
The one who prefers the others to be right.
These people, unaware of each other, are saving the world
Once again, I began to feel that pullulation of which I spoke. It appeared to me that the humid garden that surrounded the house was saturated to infinity of with invisible people. These people were Albert and I, secreted, busied and multiform in other temporal dimensions. I raised my eyes and the tenuous nightmare dissipated. In the yellow and black garden there was a single man; but that man was strong like a statue, but that man advanced by the path and was the captain Richard Madden.
Spanish Original:
Volví a sentir esa pululación de que hablé. Me pareció que el húmedo jardín que rodeaba la casa estaba saturado hasta lo infinito de invisibles personas. Esas personas eran Albert y yo, secretos, atareados y multiformes en otras dimensiones de tiempo. Alcé los ojos y la tenue pesadilla se disipó. En el amarillo y negro jardín había un solo hombre; pero ese hombre era fuerte como una estatua, pero ese hombre avanzaba por el sendero y era el capitán Richard Madden.
I do not know how familiar McCarthy is with Borges’ essays or fiction. It is easy to assume that McCarthy has read Borges or at least gained some second-hand knowledge of his work. McCarthy has also expressed the desire for fiction to be vaguely plausible, in contrast with the tradition of magical realism in Central and South America. I am not interested here in this remark or how much Borges qualifies as a magical realist. I want to identify two stories by Borges which I feel resonate with McCarthy.
The first is The Zahir. It concerns a coin which consumes the narrator’s attention so totally that eventually he can perceive and think nothing except the coin. Early in his obsession, the narrator delivers a monologue about money which inverts No Country for Old Men.
For Chigurh, a coin is an absolute sign of predestination. Where the coin goes and which side it lands on have unchangeable implications for his victims. The Zahir’s narrator meanwhile, asserts that the coin is a symbol of free will. It’s adaptability for trade, as opposed to bartering, means that a coin can stand for an infinite number of objects and futures.
The second story is Deutsches Requiem. It is the testimony of a Nazi officer who administrated a death camp and is now sentenced to death. He justifies the Holocaust as the enactment of a spiritual revival. He describes himself as an adherent of a religion he calls “faith in the sword.” It is functionally the same as Judge Holden’s theology. This Nazi also identifies Judaism as compassion. He admits by his logic that Judaism is simultaneously Christianity, as well as every other system that preaches charity.
The Nazi says “Hitler thought he was fighting for a nation, but he was fighting for all nations, even for those he attacked and abominated. It does not matter that his ego was unaware of that; his blood, his will, knew.”
Not unlike the judge’s claim that the creators of history do not require understanding to fulfill their roles. The Nazi says that the Third Reich has served its purpose by introducing ”faith in the sword“ to the world. It does not matter that it has been defeated. Indeed, it is right that it be destroyed as an offering to this new order.
The Nazi does not feel fear or sadness at his execution “...I reflected, simply because defeat has come, because it is infinitely connected to all the acts that are, that were, and that shall be, because to censure or deplore a single real act is to blaspheme against the universe.
... keep reading on reddit ➡Link to Borges Collection Page (publicly viewable)
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Gene Wolfe was an open fan of JLB and it shows in his work.
In The Book of the New Sun there is a Borges cut-out character. And lots of references to his stories and books. So at the Rereading Wolfe podcast we've begun winding our way through Borges's entire oeuvre and discussing them at length.
You can see everything done so far on the Borges Collection Page (publicly viewable)
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