Sharon Porter
Graphics: Assignment 2a

A mystery south of the Border, down Mexico way

has troubled scholars for years. The strange convergence of supernatural happenings in the Teotihuacan area near the ancient pyramid has caused some Mexican literature followers to draw references between famous national writers and Aztec folk literature. "Closet" writers of every genre from pulp bodice-rippers to technical manual writers have followed urges to buy bus tickets and form a community of watchers at the base of the pyramid. After several days of watchful encampment, the literature devotees abandon their wait for the reappearance of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar (seen below looking very changed from HIS visit to the pyramid in 1939.) They return to their daily lives as professors, hotel maids, and mechanics always swearing that they experienced a surge of writing energy and have since published works in their respective fields. This creative cycle continues today and is heard to be catching on in Florida where Hemingway mavens have been rumoured to be milling about at various piers.


Spotlight on Jorge Luis Borges





 

" I don't know what it is about that place. I told my boss at Orange Julius that I needed to spend some time with the muse. He is a patient man and gave me a week to feel better. I do already!"

- Candi Pough, writer for the Laredo Shopping News

 

"I just need a bath."

-Overheard at the base of the pyramid

 

" 'Years ago I tried to free myself from him and went from the mythologies of the suburbs to the games with time and infinity, but those games belong to Borges now and I shall have to imagine other things.' So says Borges and so says I."

- Marquis Jones, performance artist/creator of I Am, I Said, a installation of poetry and found objects, The Encampment, Teoihuacan, Mexico