Borges!!!

Happy 111th birthday to Jorge Luis Borges!!! Howard Bloom called his writing "infinitely suggestive", and his many short stories are filled with Twilight-Zonish ideas and an incredibly dry, literary sense of humor.

As one of the prime inventors of post-modernism, Borges always gives the feeling that he has trouble taking his writing too seriously, but of course this is only because he took a great deal of care with all that he wrote.

As Borges said of one of his characters, "He believed that 'great literature' is the commonest thing in the world, and that there was hardly a conversation in the street that did not attain those 'heights'."

Who but a literary great would have written this?