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It can be found in Borges essay "Kakfa and Precursors." It is also a
theme
in the short story about "Pierre Menard", and the essay on Fitzgerald
and
the Rubiyat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [SMTP:chtodel@gte.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:04 PM
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> Subject: Query: Borges quote source?
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> From: Suellen Stringer-Hye <Stringers@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu>
> Organization: Vanderbilt University
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>
> Do you know where Borges states the hypothesis by Colleen M Sullivan
> <cms223@nyu.edu> below? I've been
> looking for the quotation for a while but have forgotten where I saw it.
>
> Thanks,
> Suellen
>
> Suellen Stringer-Hye
> Jean and Alexander Heard Library
> Vanderbilt University
> stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu
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> This calls to mind Borges' hypothesis - that each writer creates his or
> her precursors, for it is through the synthesis of their qualities in
> his or her work that one can see the affinities between them, that is,
> between the model and the influenced, and among models.
It can be found in Borges essay "Kakfa and Precursors." It is also a
theme
in the short story about "Pierre Menard", and the essay on Fitzgerald
and
the Rubiyat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Barton Johnson [SMTP:chtodel@gte.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:04 PM
> To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Query: Borges quote source?
>
> From: Suellen Stringer-Hye <Stringers@LIBRARY.Vanderbilt.edu>
> Organization: Vanderbilt University
>
>
>
> Do you know where Borges states the hypothesis by Colleen M Sullivan
> <cms223@nyu.edu> below? I've been
> looking for the quotation for a while but have forgotten where I saw it.
>
> Thanks,
> Suellen
>
> Suellen Stringer-Hye
> Jean and Alexander Heard Library
> Vanderbilt University
> stringers@library.vanderbilt.edu
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>
>
>
> This calls to mind Borges' hypothesis - that each writer creates his or
> her precursors, for it is through the synthesis of their qualities in
> his or her work that one can see the affinities between them, that is,
> between the model and the influenced, and among models.