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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Iris Murdoch.<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of weeks ago,\u00a0the Redux brought you April showers<\/a>; now we\u2019re delivering the obligatory May flowers. Read on for Iris Murdoch\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Jorge Luis Borges\u2019s short story \u201cFunes the Memorious<\/a>,\u201d and Eileen Myles\u2019s poem \u201cCircus<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117<\/a>
\nIssue no. 115 (Summer 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

Which tends to come first\u2014characters or plot?<\/p>\n

MURDOCH<\/p>\n

I think they all start in much the same way, with two or three people in a relationship with a problem. Then there is a story, ordeals, conflicts, a movement from illusion to reality, all that. I don\u2019t think I have any autobiographical tendencies and can\u2019t think of any novel I\u2019ve written that is a copy of my own life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Funes the Memorious<\/a>
\nBy Jorge Luis Borges
\nIssue no. 28 (Summer\u2013Fall 1962)<\/em><\/p>\n

I remember him (I have no right to utter this sacred verb, only one man on earth had that right and he is dead) with a dark passion flower in his hand, seeing it as no one has ever seen it, though he might look at it from the twilight of dawn till that of evening, a whole lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Circus<\/a>
\nBy Eileen Myles
\nIssue no. 214 (Fall 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jill tells me about the
\nshow she is making
\n& I thought it\u2019s like
\nFlowers. What kind
\nof flowers am I making.
\nI think that I met
\nyou at work. I\u2019m home
\nNow & think what
\nKind of flower am
\nI making. How do we find
\nthe flower, use the
\nFlower spread it around
\nI thought summer\u2019s a good
\nGrowing season or is
\nIt. Is summer just hot? \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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