Borges on Time and Memory

  1. Postmodernism as Historical Dilemma
    1. "History is the nightmare …"
    2. Forgetting and Remembering: Overdetermination
    3. The Traces of History
  1. Too Much Memory: "Funes, the Memorious"
    1. A True Story? The Idiot Savant
    2. Infinite Memory and Regression: Zeno’s Paradoxes
    3. Memory and Inaction
  1. Deadly Solutions: "Death and the Compass"
    1. Occam’s Razor: "Plurality should not be posited without necessity."
    2. Elegant Solutions
    3. The Kabbalah and Hermeneutics
    4. The Final Shot
  1. The Moment of Transcendence: "The Secret Miracle"
    1. The Letter and the Firing Squad
    2. The Paradoxical Play: The Enemies
    3. A Year in a Moment
  1. Honor and Myth: "The South"
    1. The Sanitarium and the Open Range
    2. Gaucho Honor
    3. Another Transcendent Moment
  1. Elizabeth Bishop: For tomorrow: "The Map" 3, "Wading at Wellfleet" 7, "The Man-Moth" 14," "Love Lies Sleeping" 16, "The Monument" 23, "The Prodigal" 71. For Wednesday: "Arrival at Santos" 89, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" 91, "Questions of Travel" 93, "The Burglar of Babylon" 112, "Some Dreams They Forgot" 146, "One Art" 178.