Peter Matthiessen vs. Jorge Luis Borges
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Peter Matthiessen
1927 – 2014
Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.
"The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea wit…"
Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, and poet renowned for his labyrinthine, metaphysical fictions and influential collections like Ficciones and The Aleph.
"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."