{"id":43950,"date":"2026-07-16T23:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43950"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:31:56","slug":"a-book-quote-from-jorge-luis-borges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/07\/16\/a-book-quote-from-jorge-luis-borges\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Quote from Jorge Luis Borges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">~ Jorge Luis Borges, 1899 &#8211; 1986<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43951 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fictions_Borges-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fictions_Borges-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fictions_Borges-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Fictions_Borges.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43952 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Aleph_Borges-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Aleph_Borges-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Aleph_Borges-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Aleph_Borges.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.&#8221; ~ Jorge Luis Borges, 1899 &#8211; 1986<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43954,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43950\/revisions\/43954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}