SPAN 312

At first, I was intrigued by this week's reading simply from its title. I thought I knew what a labyrinth was, but I looked it up to see what google described it as - a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze. Funny enough, this description of a labyrinth seemed highly fitting to my experience with these stories and Jorge Luis Borges’ writing in general. Each story felt “ irregular ” to me and certainly difficult to find my way while reading them. So in that sense, the intriguing title did live up to my expectation, but maybe not in the way I would've hoped for.  I found there to be a lot of themes related to the idea of games and play and how sometimes we enjoy making things difficult for ourselves or changing normally occurring things to make them irregular in order to have fun. As mentioned in the lecture, his interest is in also changing the rules. I’m wondering if some people feel this way about complic...

Week 3 - Campobello's Cartucho I really enjoyed reading through Campobello's Cartucho this week! It was my first time reading anything related to the revolution, which at first made me think that I wouldn’t be super invested in it, but in the end, I really enjoyed it. I especially liked how it had a much quicker pace and was a little all over the place  (which reminded me of the mind of a young kid).  I think what I liked most about this story was the narrator.  I found that she adds a layer of innocence and curiosity while she tells stories of times and events so horrific to imagine. The narrator often surprised me with regard to her attitudes/feelings as to what was going on around her. As described in the lecture, there is a lot of reference to games and play throughout the book, however it continued to shock me how much the young narrator seemed to view these acts of violence as such. For example, “The truth is the bullets, flying right by our door, seemed lots of fun...