Books for Trips
J.L. Borges used to heft a volume of Dante's Inferno in his coat pocket
as he rode the trams of Buenos Aires, perhaps to accelerate the travel time
between his home, and the various labyrinths he lived his days in.
This afternoon, when deciding what books to pick in order to fill the slivers of time that I may find to read in Toronto, where I will be living and working in for the next few weeks, I decided to follow Borges's example, and packed John Ciardi's English version of "The Inferno", to re-read again. Apart from the timeless appeal of Dante's epic, the palm size nature of the volume made its virtues doubly appealing.
Just before takeoff, on Continental 571 to Toronto.
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O! The Joy Of A Man Finding!
I had heard of the name "Tanner Lectures" when I saw it in Salman Rushdie's latest book of non-fiction "Step Across This Line", with the title essay being the Tanner Lectures he gave at Yale University. Now, it did not occur to me to look up Tanner Lectures until today. But finally I did, and what a treasure trove I found on discovering the entire Lectures Archive. Go pig out; if you haven't read Rushdie's book, you can begin with his Tanner lectures (pdf file).
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A Found Doodle
in a volume of Anna Akhmatova's poems
A jaguar's eye takes shape on the green glass of water misting over by the bedside table. It is in its gaze, I write with my tongue on your illium, words you can't read, as you lay naked in the intruding winter sun.
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