Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
zunger

De mucho leer y poco dormir, se le secó el cerebro

It's a bit concerning, on the tail end of a multi-week reading binge that's left a huge heap of books by the side of my bed, to start another one and have it warn me in the prologue that it was too much reading and not enough sleep that drove the protagonist mad.
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hansandersen

July 27 2005, 19:29:17 UTC 10 years ago

If you're talking about the book that I *think* you're talking about, then the author's a total hypocrite. Feel free to ignore his warnings and just go ahead and read the book. :-)

zunger

July 27 2005, 19:32:10 UTC 10 years ago

Yes, but I think he's right...

hansandersen

July 27 2005, 20:32:29 UTC 10 years ago

In that case, a friendly word of advice:

Expect the Spanish Inquisition.

zunger

July 27 2005, 20:33:50 UTC 10 years ago

I always do.

faerieloch

July 27 2005, 20:35:18 UTC 10 years ago

But no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

zunger

July 27 2005, 20:37:52 UTC 10 years ago

They keep thinking that. That's why it's all the more advantage against them to do so, at all times.

doublefeh

July 27 2005, 20:39:44 UTC 10 years ago

For the benefit of those of us less culturally endowed, which author are we talking about?

It sounds like the sort of thing Borges would write, but I haven't heard anything that would make me think he's a hypocrite.

Next guess would be Umberto Eco, though I haven't actually read any of his stuff.

zunger

July 27 2005, 20:44:50 UTC 10 years ago

I just started reading the new translation of Don Quixote that Hans kept raving about. (Um... so to speak) It's quite good.

hansandersen

July 27 2005, 21:02:17 UTC 10 years ago

Umberto Eco is actually a pretty good guess; my theory is that Eco is cranky that Cervantes had the gall to predate him. By several hundred years.

zunger

July 27 2005, 21:07:07 UTC 10 years ago

So is Borges, really. Ever read "Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote"?

(And Albert, you should very seriously read The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. You would enjoy these books.)

faerieloch

July 28 2005, 12:45:16 UTC 10 years ago

I've borrow them from William, so when I'm finished with them....

faerieloch

July 27 2005, 19:39:34 UTC 10 years ago

LOL!