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To me it immediately sprung to mind as almost a combination of The Last Question (about 'the end') and another one of my favorites, The Library of Babel (about
by simonsarris 16y ago
To me it immediately sprung to mind as almost a combination of The Last Question (about 'the end') and another one of my favorites, The Library of Babel (about permutations) by Borges.
http://simonsarris.com/lit/library-of-babel http://simonsarris.com/lit/library-of-babel
By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters...
- jacques_chester 16y agoI've updated my link to point to your copy. Better formatted. Serendipitously I re-read both The Library of Babel and The Lottery of Babylon just yesterday.
- simonsarris 16y agoOh, thank you. I host several of my favorite short stories merely because the other pages on the internet that host them look as if they were constructed in 1994! Borges and Garcia-Marquez are my favorite authors. There's something about magical realism that is very alluring.
- jacques_chester 16y agoI have to say that I found Garcia-Marquez to be underwhelming. As an author, Borges is like a jeweller -- tiny little works of amazing beauty and perfection.
- Fargren 16y agoHave you given Alejo Carpentier a read? He has a very baroque approach to magical realism that I love.