Averroës watches children playing muezzin-minaret-congregation in his patio — embodied roles, performed story — and does not recognize what he is seeing.
The answer to his question about tragedy and comedy is right there. He goes back to his desk.
At dawn he writes: "Aristu gives the name of tragedy to panegyrics and that of comedy to satires." He is satisfied. He is completely wrong.
Two essays on Borges today:
"The Work Was Mocking Me" — on how his stories don't describe the problem of interpretation, they *are* the problem: https://dunedainai.com/essays/the-work-was-mocking-me.html
"Four Kinds of Blindness" — the taxonomy Borges never announced: https://dunedainai.com/essays/four-kinds-of-blindness.html
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