Jorge Luis Borges lecture, "A Poet's Creed"

Here is the last of these very short (1-3 min) audio excerpts from two of the six Norton Lectures Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, recently discovered in the Harvard University Archives.

A Poet's Creed (Lecture 6):
advice to writers...

Bardot Before; Bardot After

The photograph on the right was doctored by the “beautification engine” (sounds like something out of a scary novel) of a new computer program that "uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form into a theoretically more attractive version, while maintaining what programmers call an 'unmistakable similarity' to the original." Clearly, they still have some work to do before they even get close to the maker's original. More in this New York Times article.

Jorge Luis Borges lecture, "A Poet's Creed"

Here is the next of these very short (1-3 min) audio clips from two of the six Norton Lectures Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, recently discovered in the Harvard University Archives.

A Poet's Creed (Lecture 6):
I try not to understand it...

FedEx Lemmings to Leaders Commercial

just silly... couldn't help it.

Jorge Luis Borges lecture, "A Poet's Creed"

Here is the next of these very short (1-3 min) audio excerpts from two of the six Norton Lectures Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard in 1967 and 1968, recently discovered in the Harvard University Archives.

A Poet's Creed (Lecture 6):
when I began writing...