i had an astonishingly good conversation last night (with people whose twitter handles i sadly don’t know) about borges - someone mentioned after he read borges it became so clear how many later writers were imitating or riffing off of stuff he did better
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i mentioned feeling similar about olaf stapledon. c.s. lewis and tolkien are in this category too. and it’s quite striking how all of them were specifically working during the post-WWI (stapledon) or post-WWII (for the others) eras
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makes me want to devour everything that borges has ever written, apparently i’m missing a lot of good stuff. would love to use him more consciously as an inspiration for my own writing
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