alephbet
essays on ghost writing, nutshells & infinite space
Reading these essays again I distinctly remember quoting or paraphrasing him In others I have no recollection how he got there. But in retrospect, it makes perfect sense that he did. These essays reveal those moments of intimation and infiltration when Jorge Luis Borges elbowed his way onto my page by the sheer force of his anticipatory consejousness. Ezra Pounda gave us an ABC of Reading, Joyce the abcedminded-ness that tric Havelock borrowed to describe a state of mind contoured by the written word. So it is only now realize that on tirst reading him I was also learning a new abc, an alephoet that anticipates all things before they have been written.