Lex Fridman reads a love poem by Jorge Luis Borges

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 41

  • @bretoncristobal
    @bretoncristobal 2 роки тому +71

    As an argentinian, was a nice surprise hearing this on your podcast.
    Borges is so good, one of the best ever.
    I think a fun one from him that you would enjoy is "The Circular Ruins" (theres a lot more too of course).
    I also think you would enjoy Julio Cortazar's takes on love, heres an example:
    "What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard."

    • @jejo63660
      @jejo63660 2 роки тому +4

      Great line. Thanks for sharing.

  • @violinsinthevoid4579
    @violinsinthevoid4579 2 роки тому +50

    Borges is a true master. Absolutely stunning. His poems are great, but his short stories are just beyond the beyond. I particularly love Tlon, Uqbar, Morbus Tortius and the Order of the Phoenix.

  • @elledan77
    @elledan77 2 роки тому +19

    Borges is the best. Much love from Argentina !!♥

  • @wendyg8536
    @wendyg8536 2 роки тому +11

    that moment.. where the two people meet..
    .. is the meaning of life.

  • @Marfmellow88
    @Marfmellow88 2 роки тому +11

    Lex has such a nice voice…I could listen to him read poetry forever

  • @MaestroDrake
    @MaestroDrake 2 роки тому +29

    It's a rarity to find a poem that means Nothing, Anything and Everything at the same time.

    • @Alex_OBL
      @Alex_OBL Рік тому +1

      This comment is poetry in and of itself.
      Much love and keep on rockinˋ!

  • @ivansandoval946
    @ivansandoval946 2 роки тому +12

    Thanks for sharing this amazing poem written by my compatriot Borges. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷

  • @donmaidonmai
    @donmaidonmai 2 роки тому +12

    Makes total sense for a researcher into the mind's inner workings to be into the Blind Librarian. JLB was a visionary

  • @hw5475
    @hw5475 2 роки тому +11

    Nothing compares to 20th century Latin American writers. This is a great translation as well--it must be an onerous task to re-cast gems into a different color. I appreciate seeing your appreciation of it :)

    • @EugeniaPortobello
      @EugeniaPortobello 4 місяці тому +1

      I believe this was originally written in English. "Two English poems"

  • @facundoalvarado9
    @facundoalvarado9 Рік тому +2

    'El Amenazado' (The Threatened One) is another sublime love poem by Borges

  • @Handle1916
    @Handle1916 Рік тому +1

    That rare moment that Lex describes when you see a stranger and it’s like a lightning strike. Is it a glimpse of the beauty behind the social mask? And the heart stirs in its dark depths.

  • @clashoneta1211
    @clashoneta1211 2 роки тому +4

    Aguante Borges! Loves from Argentina. Thanks for your work, Lex!

  • @angelatorrez6732
    @angelatorrez6732 2 роки тому +3

    Cuando pediste que te recomienden libros todos te decían "el alquimista" y como quien no quiere la cosa llega Borges, bienvenido!

  • @JordansAnalysis
    @JordansAnalysis 7 днів тому

    That was a beautiful reading of an equally beautiful poem, Lex. I count Borges as being among the greatest writers, thinkers, and poets of the 20th century, if not of all time, really, and his main preoccupations and fascinations(e.g reality, infinity, Godhood and divinity, memories, intelligence and intellectualism, knowledge, spirals, labyrinths, dreams, illusions, ideas, abstractions, etc.) are only becoming more and more relevant as the days and years progress, it seems, what with the theological walls that cosmologists and physicists(whether specializing in quantum physics, astrophysics, theoretical physics, or any other) increasingly push up against in their explorations of whether or not there actually exists a finite, determinate, and thus, geometrically describable and capturable universe, and perhaps even more fundamentally so, of the existence or non-existence of an actual, objective reality that exists independently of human perception, consciousness, and mental conceptualization.
    Long story short, keep up the good work, Lex. You run one of the greatest podcasts in the history of UA-cam, I must say.

  • @limbopy6609
    @limbopy6609 2 роки тому +3

    Love u for this,greetings from Paraguay!

  • @BigBunnyLove
    @BigBunnyLove 2 роки тому +1

    One of my favorite authors.

  • @Lipsa50
    @Lipsa50 16 днів тому

    Wow. Beautiful poem

  • @kellyismyname777
    @kellyismyname777 Рік тому +2

    Poetry blends the mind and the heart, although separate and seemingly estranged(anatomically speaking), into a chasm of what it means to be human.
    The mere thought of two separate and different organs becoming one. Kind of like men and women.
    Men think, woman feel(heart)...women know men feel..."at the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet"-some guy named plato (lol)...
    Perhaps pursuing someone who makes you see things differently, has significance to the relationship that was always there...even before you knew the possibility of it.
    The unknown, but felt and longed for places...
    On another note, I love poetry, and have not read this...thanks for the recommendation!✌🏼(*all is just my opinion here...I am not expert)

  • @pandittroublejr
    @pandittroublejr Рік тому +3

    You can't misread a poem... 🔥🔥

  • @somerandomcostarricandude7081
    @somerandomcostarricandude7081 2 роки тому +1

    Great stuff, best regards Lex.

  • @sue.F
    @sue.F Рік тому +1

    Why not read this poem in its entirety and make the comments after. I love this poem, (especially the lines he skips and says; on and on). Please, you’ve butchered this most heart-rendering piece. There is an art to reading poetry, which is not apparent here.

  •  2 роки тому

    Amazing podcast

  • @zachgates7491
    @zachgates7491 Рік тому

    In all good readings of famous poems, the reader says “and so on, so on.”

  • @georgetacarmen8824
    @georgetacarmen8824 Рік тому

    Now this is a beautiful love poem.
    :-)
    I love listening to Lex read poems before going to sleep.
    It puts me in such a nice mood.
    :-)
    You can't tell me that someone who reads and understands poems like this hasn't been in love before.
    Like with an actual person.
    For more than just a brief time.
    I just don't believe it.

  • @Humanaut.
    @Humanaut. 2 роки тому +4

    What is this poem called?

    • @GeroG3N
      @GeroG3N 2 роки тому +1

      Two english poems

    • @Humanaut.
      @Humanaut. 2 роки тому +3

      @@GeroG3N wow thank you very much !
      Glad to finally have found it after such a long time.

  • @MrDawnRise
    @MrDawnRise 6 місяців тому

    Borges is an infinite mirror of perilous curves

  • @supamatta9207
    @supamatta9207 2 роки тому

    Not super today ... todays more like steps to a fleeting time, decent shadows ti the sunset reflect the blissfull lost, love for once need not be contradiction, reality stumping as letters whispering and boggling notes to where steps land

  • @pandittroublejr
    @pandittroublejr Рік тому

    🔥🔥❤️❤️

  • @ldwankenobi5618
    @ldwankenobi5618 2 роки тому

    ☮️💟

  • @mauricioalfaro9406
    @mauricioalfaro9406 Рік тому

    Man, just read the whole thing and leave your personal.comments for last

  • @yachasun6267
    @yachasun6267 2 роки тому

    😱