http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/02/08/first-take-on-cloud-atlas/ blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/02/08/first-take-on-cloud-atlas/comment-page-1/#comment-2948 tikitu Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:30:15 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=129#comment-2948 <p>He changed his opinion significantly in later life --- went against the overuse of dialect and so on for "Argentine literature". Iirc, this was partly based on the observation that actually people <em>don't</em> speak like that... but he had more developed reasons also. I'll try and dig up the reference (I think it's one of the books I have here) and post something about it.</p> He changed his opinion significantly in later life — went against the overuse of dialect and so on for “Argentine literature”. Iirc, this was partly based on the observation that actually people don’t speak like that… but he had more developed reasons also. I’ll try and dig up the reference (I think it’s one of the books I have here) and post something about it.

]]> http://www.logophile.org/blog/2006/02/08/first-take-on-cloud-atlas/comment-page-1/#comment-2947 jacob Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:53:03 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=129#comment-2947 <p>Are you saying Borges is an advocate against the (over)use of local colour? Then what about his own work? I must be missing something here.</p> Are you saying Borges is an advocate against the (over)use of local colour? Then what about his own work? I must be missing something here.

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