Dansite Reading Journal

p. 84

• The Garden of Forking Paths
  • pullulation - asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual
  • synonym - gemmation

p. 98

• Funes, his Memory
• Borges tells of a young man whose memory cannot abstract from time
• "Funes, we must not forget, was virtually incapable of general, platonic ideas. Not only was it difficult to see that the generic symbol "dog" took in all the dissimilar individuals of all shapes and sizes, it irritated him that the "dog" of three-fourteen in the afternoon, seen in profile, should be indicated by the same noun as the dog of three-fifteen, seen frontally."