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> the permanence of objects in time relates thematically to Jorge Luis Borges' own writing Also very strongly to "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis_Tertius" (1940), which exp
by schoen 9y ago
> the permanence of objects in time relates thematically to Jorge Luis Borges' own writing
Also very strongly to "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis_Tertius" (1940), which explicitly mentions that topic, but maybe it's anachronistic (!) for your purposes here.
- stochastic_monk 9y agoLiterally, not literarily, anachronistic, to be precise. ;) You’re entirely right. I think that Borges and Hofstadter are writers whose work uniquely appeals to computer scientists.