Borges on Eternal Objects

Coleridge's Dream

Such facts raise the possibility that this series of dreams and works has not yet ended....

After writing this, I glimpsed or thought I glimpsed another explana­tion.Perhaps an archetype not yet revealed to mankind,an eternal object (to use Whitehead's term), is gradually entering the world;its first manifes­tation was the palace; it's second,the poem. Whoever compares them will see that they are essentially the same.

"We (the undivided divinity operating within us) have dreamt the world. We have dreamt it as firm, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and durable in time; but in its architecture we have allowed tenuous and eternal crevices of unreason which tell us it is false."
 -Borges

The short stories of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges are unlike those of any other author. Despite an average length of only a few pages, each tale is packed full of mind-boggling impossibilities of physics, philosophy and psychology, some of which are even hard to imagine. We'll be taking a look at how Borges crafted his stories and some of the incredible thinking going on behind the scenes.

FURTHER READING/VIEWING/LISTENING

'Labyrinths' by Jorge Luis Borges: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Labyrinths-S...

'This Craft of Verse' Lectures by Jorge Luis Borges:    • Jorge Luis Borges...  

On Alexius Meinong's Theory of Objects:    • Nonexistent Objec...  

Radio Programmes about Borges' work and life: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b04... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3c...