[lit-ideas] "Our Father" And Dr. Brodie's Dilemma
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:42:55 EDT
In a message dated 6/21/2009 5:16:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I cried. Remembering my father
and how I resented the fact that he
never shared the wisdom
that would make me
like him.
----
J. L. Borges, who sort of hated his father, recalls, in "Dr. Brodie's
Report", the dilemma of Dr. Brodie, a Scots missionary spreading the Gospel in
Tierra del Fuego.
"These natives, -- [he was going to translate "The Lord's Prayer", which
starts, "Our Father..."] don't have a notion of 'father', or
'fatherhood';
'motherhood' yes, because it's _visual_. But fathers are distant --
their
spermatic achievement was 9 months before the conception, and these
natives don't have such a long attention span."
J. L. S.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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