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Ficciones, by Borges Very imaginative short stories bordering on the philosophical, some of them hilarious.

• korch 17y ago
  Seconding Jorge Luis Borges! Even before Godel, Escher, Bach! Although Borges is pre-computer era, and is long part of the literary Canon, I think the tone of so many of his stories make a lot more sense from the perspective of the Internet era. If Google were an author, I think it would be Borges more so than any other writer. Borges constantly wove themes of what is too much knowledge, how are we ensnared and consumed by it, and ultimately how are beauty & wonder itself contained in that paradoxical process from which all things flow.