Madi

The Other Tiger

By Jorge Luis Borges <3 <3

Borges is dreaming again; from his labyrinthine library he conjures a tiger. He describes his tiger by the Ganges, and it appears as a magnificent beast. But actually it is not a beast, an image only! He tries to write of that real, bloody, hot and pulsating tiger, but ho ho! he has spoken of it again, and again a fiction! The third tiger is the absent tiger, Borges speaks of it only insofar that he cannot speak of it.

Borges cannot speak of the tiger, the one that could eat him. In lieu he creates a poetic shadow, that presses mischievously against the kingdom of the real.

A silent description.