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Like many other Borges' stories they reach a point where it is no other thing but a different way to tell about the world. The Lottery finds that deliver money

Like many other Borges' stories they reach a point where it is no other thing but a different way to tell about the world. The Lottery finds that deliver money it's not enough, it will deliver joy, pain, enlightenment, suffering, tragedy and hapiness too. So one bought a ticket not just to gain some gold, but to play.

jl6 5y ago
The Lottery in Babylon is the same essential idea as the Library of Babel. The Lottery becomes so sophisticated, it becomes indistinguishable from the “random” events of reality, and therefore is there really any lottery at all?
- KingFelix 5y ago
  He spoke on these topics a lot, similar to how Philip K Dick asks whats real anyway, using memories etc. Borges has another story about a map that becomes indistinguishable to reality. On Exactitude in Science (I believe its this one)
  - BLKNSLVR 5y ago
    The map that exactly covers the territory it is mapping. I love what that little snippet of story does to my understanding of the 'world in general' (my personal mental map). ... In that empire, the art of Cartography reached such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the whole of a city, and the map of th empire took up an entire province. With time, those exaggerated maps no longer satisfied, and the Colleges of Cartographers came up with a map of the empire that had the size of the empire itself, and coincided with it point by point. Less addicted to the study of Cartography, succeeding generations understood that this extended map was useless, and without compassion, they abandoned it to the inclemencies of the sun and of the winters. In the deserts of the west, there remain tattered fragments of the map, inhabited by animals and beggars; in the whole country there are no other relics of the geographical disciplines. The universe could well be a simulation ... of its exact self.

jl6 5y ago

The Lottery in Babylon is the same essential idea as the Library of Babel. The Lottery becomes so sophisticated, it becomes indistinguishable from the “random” events of reality, and therefore is there really any lottery at all?

KingFelix 5y ago
He spoke on these topics a lot, similar to how Philip K Dick asks whats real anyway, using memories etc. Borges has another story about a map that becomes indistinguishable to reality. On Exactitude in Science (I believe its this one)
- BLKNSLVR 5y ago
  The map that exactly covers the territory it is mapping. I love what that little snippet of story does to my understanding of the 'world in general' (my personal mental map). ... In that empire, the art of Cartography reached such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the whole of a city, and the map of th empire took up an entire province. With time, those exaggerated maps no longer satisfied, and the Colleges of Cartographers came up with a map of the empire that had the size of the empire itself, and coincided with it point by point. Less addicted to the study of Cartography, succeeding generations understood that this extended map was useless, and without compassion, they abandoned it to the inclemencies of the sun and of the winters. In the deserts of the west, there remain tattered fragments of the map, inhabited by animals and beggars; in the whole country there are no other relics of the geographical disciplines. The universe could well be a simulation ... of its exact self.