From "
This Is Your Brain on Borges":
In Buenos Aires, he contacted the author's widow, María
Kodama, and after several long discussions, she invited him to visit Borges's
private library. Quiroga made repeated visits, experiencing what he says felt
like an "intimate conversation" with the icon of Argentine
literature. ...
"It was like a treasure," he says, describing his
sojourn in Borges's stacks, where he found books by William James, Gustav
Spiller, and other figures in philosophy and psychology.
Quiroga was excited by Borges's annotations. Not marginalia
exactly. Borges liked to write notes on the title page or last page of a book,
in a minuscule hand, before he went blind. Later he would ask those reading to
him to write the annotations. ...
We live in a "Funes kind of world," he writes,
suggesting that the media's bombardment of our senses gives a feeling of the
inundation that Borges's protagonist [in "Funes the
Memorious"] endures.
