The Garden of Forking Paths (part1)


	The Garden of Forking Paths (part1)

syncopath

3-5-2008 8:40 PM

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syncopath says:

"Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell."
Jorge Luis Borges "The Library of Babel" (1941)

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3-5-2008 9:31 PM

alanocu

outstanding! great clip syncopath

3-6-2008 3:28 AM

Fast T friend

"The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary . . . More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books."
Borges - 10 November 1941

thanks for rekindling that unique composition of my awe&love, which is Borges

3-6-2008 4:04 AM

abailart

As Fast T said! A labyrinth's just fallen from my shelf and i have fallen into it. Happy reading!

3-6-2008 9:20 AM

haraya

My favorite line from the short story:

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

Great clip!

3-6-2008 11:45 AM

carrerinyes

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