Comments on: Polopolis https://andrewchapman.info/373/ Editor, writer, book designer, publishing consultant, walker Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:47:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.3 By: anonymous https://andrewchapman.info/373/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:12:52 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/03/373/#comment-36 I reckon that with a little effort I could reproduce the manner and interests of Borges exactly; would you be interested to read an article about the possibility of doing so? If I refer to him allusively as Certvantes throughout, in order to emphasise the universality and Picaresque whimsicality of Borges’ interests (while of course presenting a fictionalised version of myself in the third person) would that be too confusing?

HTFB

]]> By: hatmandu https://andrewchapman.info/373/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:24:20 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/03/373/#comment-35 Y’know it hadn’t occurred to me at the time (and I was thinking of Calvino, of course), but I see what you mean. This must have been what happened to Dan Brown with THB&THG, oh yes.

]]> By: dogrando https://andrewchapman.info/373/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:58:55 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/03/373/#comment-32 Gosh… anyone would think you might have read some Borges at some point in your life…

]]> By: hatmandu https://andrewchapman.info/373/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:28:31 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/03/373/#comment-34 I hear the Spice Girls pass through on occasion.

]]> By: editor https://andrewchapman.info/373/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:14:33 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/03/373/#comment-33 Isn’t that where All Saints live?

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