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I gave the example of the Bible as just such a text. And in his The Garden of the Forking Paths, Borges provides the conceptual rationale for hypertext 80 years ago. He also identifies its primary function: defeating time.
Like all hypertext, The Garden of Forking Paths is appropriately biblical. It has a beginning but presumes some sort of prior sentient existence; so really starts in medias res. The book of Genesis has time as the first creation the primordial separation of light and darkness. By so doing, he creates several futures, several times over, and in turn these proliferate and branch off.
On the one hand, there is no beginning since eventually all recurs. Now and again, the paths of this labyrinth converge. If time is linear, it must have a beginning, and therefore by definition excludes eternity. The circularity of time in the Garden is authentic eternity, containing everything that could possibly happen within any slice of it. Good and evil are relativised not just to each other but to existence itself. They are both there and not there.
Not unlike Yahweh who decided that perhaps all was not that good in his creation just before initiating his exterminating Flood. View all 4 comments.
Aug 27, Sr3yas rated it it was amazing Shelves: short-story-novellas. Written in , The Garden of Forking Paths is a fascinating short story set during the first world war. The story introduces a Chinese spy living in England and working for Germany during the war, His cover has just been blown and he is on the run with sensitive information. He travels to meet one person who might be able to deliver this information to Germany. And at this point, everything changes Think: Multiverse I enjoyed this story immensely, main Written in , The Garden of Forking Paths is a fascinating short story set during the first world war.
Think: Multiverse I enjoyed this story immensely, mainly because I had no idea what was going on and when I finally pieced together the story, I was quite blown away. Also, Jorge's writing style reminded me of recent works of Ted Chiang, a personal favorite. It all started with the movie Coherence For those who haven't seen the movie, it's about a group of friends who experience the break down of reality barriers as they get together for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
After I finished watching this rather trippy story, I came to Wikipedia to read about the movie and ended up on "See also" section which featured links to three quantum mechanics theories and ONE short story written in That's how I found this story!
View all 6 comments. As the story begins, Doctor Tsun has realized that an MI5 agent called Captain Richard Madden is pursuing him, has entered the apartment of his handler Viktor Runeberg, and has either captured or killed him.
Doctor Tsun is certain that his own arrest is next. He has just discovered the location of a new British artillery park and wishes to convey that knowledge to Berlin before he is captured. He at last hits upon a plan to achieve this. Jul 11, Ian "Marvin" Graye rated it it was amazing Shelves: reviews , borges , reviewsstars , read The Universal Library If life or a life can be construed as a text, then the universe might be analogous to a library: "The universe which others call the Library is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
On the way, it takes in time, space, meaning, truth, consciousness, our selves and our rel The Universal Library If life or a life can be construed as a text, then the universe might be analogous to a library: "The universe which others call the Library is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
On the way, it takes in time, space, meaning, truth, consciousness, our selves and our relationship with the universe. Vast and Ambitious For Borges, Man is a reader or librarian trying to read, interpret and understand the Library. It's a vast project. Like its object and perhaps its subject , it's infinite. Vast books can and have been dedicated to the project. Borges makes this project his own, from a fictional point of view.
However, he works under a self-imposed constraint: "It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them. Borges jokingly blames laziness, but it's actually an amazing facility to hint at in five minutes of our reading time what could take writers and philosophers pages to labour through and not communicate so clearly.
Besides, we can safely assume that Borges was familiar with some actual vast works on his subject matter, not just imaginary ones. The Appearance of Reality Borges doesn't need to be encyclopaedic in his approach to the universe.
He just pretends to be encyclopaedic. He uses detail, citation, criticism to feign plausibility, verisimilitude, truth and comprehensiveness. His aim is to create a fictitious world that appears to be real. He hopes his fragments will convince us that they contain the essence of the entirety.
However, the whole project remains fictional and illusory. In one of the worlds that he creates, there is a belief that "all books are the work of a single author who is timeless and anonymous. Borges the Builder We've become accustomed to authors "world building".
They strive to build a fictional world that convinces us of its veracity. On the other hand, religions posit that God created the world, the entirety of the universe. Borges might be a writer, but he seems to place himself somewhere between the conventional writer and God. While God might have created the material world, Borges creates an abstract and imaginary world. However, in the process, he self-consciously draws attention to the process and method of creation.
He is a master of metafiction. He works at the boundary of the imagination, philosophy and hermeneutics. Indeed, his writing suggests that philosophy is fundamentally a work of imagination and interpretation of the Library of the universe. Writers and philosophers alike are trying to unravel the mysteries of the universe. Once we accept this metaphor, this truth, Borges invites us to have some fun with the universe he has created. In a world otherwise preoccupied with the pursuit of order, sense and truth, he introduces play and games that involve hoaxes, fraud, fallacy, artifice, illusion, unreality, illogic, mirrors, mazes, labyrinths.
There is no certainty that any path taken will lead to the truth. Like one of Borges' narrators, we all work at "the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopaedia. Making Sense of Books Because a book is a mere fragment of the universe, there should be no reason to believe that the truth can be found in a book, either easily or at all.
One of the narrators refers to "the vain and superstitious habit of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of the palm of one's hand
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The Garden of Forking Paths
The passage starts off with a brief historical excerpt of World War I, where a planned offensive by the British divisions against the Germans was delayed. A recount of the event, written by Dr. Yu Tsun, then starts abruptly from its third page. In a mission to relate the information of the British artillery whereabouts to his Chief in Germany, he quickly plans his next move.
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Tsun is largely motivated to kill Albert to serve the Chief, ostensibly a high-ranking German officer, to show that Chinese people can be heroic. The narrative, then, is quite simple: Tsun plans to kill someone named Albert to alert the Chief that the British artillery are located in a city called Albert, to show that Chinese people can be heroic. However, the narrative ends both abruptly and with a deep sense of remorse from Tsun. Thus, he has killed Albert as he intended to do, which, as he predicts, leads to death, yet feels regret for doing so, which invites the following question: what motivated the change?
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The Infinite Labyrinth of Time in Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths”
Jorge Luis Borges In fact, the story helped to establish his reputation as a fiction writer. Outraged, other Argentinean writers and critics devoted an entire issue of the prominent literary journal, Sur, to Borges and his work. As in his other stories, Borges uses fiction as a vehicle to explore philosophical and literary issues. Consequently, the characters in his stories seem less developed.