Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Richard Burgin, Daniel Bourne, Stephen Cape, Charles Silver, Gloria López Lecube
 
The Sage – I’ve finally realized what I love about Jorge Luis Borges is what I love about good magicians: They kindle your sense of wonder. As an example, here’s Borges, in conversation with Richard Burgin: “I wrote some quite short pieces. I’ve written two sonnets, not too good ones, and then a poem about a friend who had promised us a picture. He did. He’s a well-known Argentine painter, Larco, and then I thought of the picture he had promised us, promised my wife and me – I met him in the street – and then I thought that in a sense he had given us a picture because he had intended to do so, and so the picture was in some mystic way or other with us, except that the picture was perhaps a richer picture because it was a picture that kept growing and changing with time and we could imagine it in many different ways, and then in the end I thanked him for that increasing, shifting picture, saying that, of course, he wouldn’t find any place on the four walls of a room, but still he’d be with us.”