Annotations for Marisol of Hades.
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Marisol
is a Spanish name, a shortened form of María de la Soledad ("Mary of [the] Solitude"), a title given to the Virgin Mary
poem
Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Odd
The wheeling of the stars is not infinite
And the tiger is one of the forms that return,
But we, remote from chance of hazard,
Believed we were exiled in a time outworn,
Time when nothing can happen.
The universe, the tragic universe, was not here
And maybe should be looked for somewhere else;
I hatched a humble mythology of fencing
walls and knives
And Ricardo thought of his drovers.
We did not know that time to come held a lightning bolt;
We did not forsee the shame, the fire, and the fearful
night of the Alliance;
Nothing told us that Argentine history would be thrust
out to walk the streets,
History, indignation, love,
The multitudes like the sea, the name of Córdoba,
The flavor of the real and the incredible, the
horror and the glory.
[From Dreamtigers, by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Harold Morland]
Borges was already seeing a connection between his literary projects of the 1920s and the „fascist“ government of the 1940 in Argentina. The poem contrasts his innocence as a young artist with the political events of decades later (Perón coming to power and later being overthrown by a „revolution“ that started in a city of Cordoba). Here too his desire to create a „mythology“ for Buenos Aires based on popular culture is presented and somehow linked to the emergence of the totalitarioan regimes. (from Borges and the Politics of Form by Jose Eduardo Gonzalez)
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maybe 1435 Logan St.? There is a school called Gabriella Charter
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circle around a stone
the „company“ that produced Familiar (and House of Leaves)
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