Jay parini borges5/13/2023 When Reid and Jasper must go to London for a few days, he asks Jay to help with Borges. Alastair, Jeff, Jasper, and I gathered before him, listening to the odd recitation, the cries of gulls overhead and the nearby surf nearly drowning him out. It was too wonderful, unlikely, and satisfying: a blind old poet beside a putting green. A hilarious dinner party, where, under the influence of Reid’s dope-infused brownies, blind Borges takes off at speed across a beachside golf course, using crashing waves and the noise of screeching gulls as a guide, with the intent of chanting out The Seafarer on the edge of the North Sea. Borges visits Reid and, of course, Jay is introduced. Reid, as many will know, is a poet of some note and also a translator of Borges’ poems. He is introduced to, and becomes friends with, Alastair Reid, his son Jasper and their lodger Jeff. thesis on the poetry of Mackay Brown, under the supervision of Professor Alec Falconer. The Vietnam draft is hanging over Parini like the proverbial dagger so he leaves America to enroll at St. The student is Jay Parini, who, in 1970, at the behest of Jorge Luis Borges, no less, circumnavigates the Highlands in a car that has a connection to the road that seems more spiritual than rubber on tarmac. But this narrative is more biography than fiction. “How on earth had I landed in bed with an elderly, loquacious blind man in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands?”Ī famous blind Argentinean writer, an American student, driving an old Morris Minor, touring the Scottish Highlands.
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