Colour
Soon, literary men will not ask themselves, ‘What book shall I write?’ but ‘Which book?’
-Lewis Carroll, as quoted by Jorge Luis Borges
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Tonight it’s The Latin Bit at Barrio North!
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One of the habits of the mind is the invention of horrible imaginings. The mind has invented Hell, it has invented predestination to Hell, it has imagined the Platonic ideas, the chimera, the sphinx, abnormal transfinite numbers (whose parts are no smaller than the whole), masks, mirrors, operas, the teratological Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the unresolvable Ghost, articulated into a single organism… I have tried to rescue from oblivion a subaltern horror: the vast, contradictory Library, whose vertical wilderness of books run the incessant risk of changing into others that affirm, deny, and confuse everything like a delirious god.
-Jorge Luis Borges, “The Total Library”, 1939
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Go librarians!
What comic book is that?
The Sandman, man. The Kindly Ones.
A reminder of why it is that I love, adore, and very nearly worship Neil Gaiman. I have many many books in the library of dreams.
I’ve always suspected that Gaiman is an avid Borges reader.