I am still, albeit only partially, Borges. (In Gujarat, at the end of the eighteenth century, Zahir was a tiger in Java a blind man in the Sukarta mosque who was stoned by the faithful in Persia, an astrolabe that Nadir Shah ordered thrown into the sea in the prisons of Mahdi, in 1892, a small compass, wrapped in a shred of cloth from a turban that Rudolf Karl von Slatin touched in the synagogue of Cordoba, according to Zotenberg, a vein in the marble of one of the twelve hundred pillars in the Jewish quarter of Tetuan, the bottom of a well.) Today is the thirteenth of November last June 7, at dawn, the Zahir came into my hands I am not the man I was then, but I am still able to recall, and perhaps recount, what happened. The author receives change after paying for a drink and realizes one of the 20 cent coins in his change is a zahir, an object that can create an obsession. Paolo Coelho, Forworde - ‚The Zahir‘ In Buenos Aires the Zahir is a common twenty-centavo coin into which a razor or penknife has scratched the letters N T and the number two the date stamped on the face is 1929. This can be either a state of holiness or madness. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can‘t think of nothing else. According to the writer Jorges Luis Borges, the idea of the Zahir comes from Islamic tradition and is thought to have arisen at some point in. Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. David and Tamler happen across Jorge Luis Borges’ The Zahir and now they can’t stop thinking about it. Inspired by According to the writer Jorges Luis Borges, the idea of the Zahir comes from Islamic tradition and is thought to have arisen at some point in the 18th century. Episode 178: Borges Obsession-Obsession ('The Zahir') December 10th, 2019.
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