Beyond bullet points

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Written By Karen Zemanick

Google’s doodle today celebrates the birthday of Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian writer born August 24, 1899. I am a fan of his surrealist and science fiction work, his labyrinths and his libraries. In my copy of Collected Fictions, I see that I have left a notecard on which I have written just one word, “mutability.”

Borges would have had something to say about the mind-numbing effects of PowerPoint.

On another note, Berfois features a poem by Marianne Moore, born in 1887. She has something to say about the raw material behind poetry. I don’t think she would have liked PowerPoint either.

Sir Edward James' surrealist garden, Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico 

By Bernardo Bolaños) (Own work) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC-BY-2.5 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

Karen Zemanick

Karen Zemanick, an MFA student at Northwestern University, has published creative nonfiction and video essays. She also practices and teaches psychiatry in Chicago. She sees narrative as a tool to foster listening, community, and understanding.

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