I always thought Stranger Than Fiction was a great portrayal of an autistic dude, what with his obsession with sticking to his schedule, and the entire intro being filled with numbers and data above stuff he looks at.
The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor. It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; I live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his literature, and this literature justifies me. It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself can survive in him. Little by little, I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things.
Spinoza knew that all things long to persist in their being; the stone eternally wants to be a stone and the tiger a tiger. I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar. Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
I do not know which of us has written this page.
Any of you guys are free to answer the question I posed Senj if you are bored.
Super power is easy. Pick super speed, rob a bank, yay.
Dude, telepathy. Just set yourself up to commit a massive amount of white collar crime then get them to cover it up for you. Why steal small change and work up a sweat when you can steal billions in a suit?
Super power is easy. Pick super speed, rob a bank, yay.
Picking a superpower with the intent of robbing banks is silly. Why not just ask for the power to be able to pull the local equivalent of $20 out of your pocket at any time? Or to create an exact duplicate of any object?
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I knew what the premise was before I saw it.
Me either.
So, you're a robot too?
You been...serviced lately?
*robot winky*
What are the benefits of being omnipresent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VFzJLK51cs
STOP MAKING ME HATE YOU MORE!
Bobby Brown has earned a medal of freedom.
"Borges and I"
The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor. It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; I live, let myself go on living, so that Borges may contrive his literature, and this literature justifies me. It is no effort for me to confess that he has achieved some valid pages, but those pages cannot save me, perhaps because what is good belongs to no one, not even to him, but rather to the language and to tradition. Besides, I am destined to perish, definitively, and only some instant of myself can survive in him. Little by little, I am giving over everything to him, though I am quite aware of his perverse custom of falsifying and magnifying things.
Spinoza knew that all things long to persist in their being; the stone eternally wants to be a stone and the tiger a tiger. I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar. Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things. Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
I do not know which of us has written this page.
Any of you guys are free to answer the question I posed Senj if you are bored.
and when I saw it in the movies.
and every subsequent time I saw it or read it.....
I could fuck all your mothers at once.
every single orifice right down to the fucking pores
I could be everywhere at all times. Way better than teleportation, which is better than using a car or a train.
Dude, telepathy. Just set yourself up to commit a massive amount of white collar crime then get them to cover it up for you. Why steal small change and work up a sweat when you can steal billions in a suit?
fuck that.
wow them with flying and you don't even need to talk to them.
who wouldn't want to have sex while floating?
I was very pleasantly surprised by Will Ferrel in a somewhat more serious role than the usual slapstick.
Picking a superpower with the intent of robbing banks is silly. Why not just ask for the power to be able to pull the local equivalent of $20 out of your pocket at any time? Or to create an exact duplicate of any object?
Nah, super speed is better. I can never die.
I tear up at the part in the movie where what's-his-ass says "you bow to no one" to Elijah Wood.
Isn't the "I" Borges as well?
Or am I not examining it through enough levels of irony.
This has always been mine.
To be able to control it completely would be better, but stopping and starting it would be one of the best powers ever.