In Jorge Luis Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Menard, a 20th-century author, tries to organically, spontaneously produce a verbatim re-telling of Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605 classic Don Quixote. Dismissing texts that situate historical figures in modern contexts, Borges writes “Like all men of good taste, Menard abhorred these useless carnivals, fit only -- as he would say -- to produce the plebeian pleasure of anachronism or (what is worse) to enthrall us with the elementary idea that all epochs are the same or are different.”
Speaking of epochs: after Monday’s loss to Phoenix, the Knicks are 9-23.