Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon.
from "The Wall and the Books"
in Labyrinths
Is it permissible to comment on this blog now that i'm a contributor?
ReplyDeleteI hope so.
Thanks for the quote.
very interesting. i have yet to discover borges for myself, though i have a personal anthology of his that taunts me from the bookshelf.
ReplyDeleteshoot, chen, I'll comment here too, it's all ok. ^_^
ReplyDeleteI really like this quote, which a friend helped me see was awesome, because it seems to hint at the difficulty in expressing in words a moment of insight or connection that comes when listening to a song or reading something that resonates with you; it really does feel like some revelation of truth or understanding about to emerge which never does.