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> Things became duplicated in Tlön; they also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which surv
by lou1306 2y ago
> Things became duplicated in Tlön; they also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death. At times some birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.
JL Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- aktau 2y agoI highly recommend this to anyone reading HN. I wouldn't say it changed my life, but I think about Borges and Fictions/The Aleph at least once per year.
- lou1306 2y agoI would say that TUOT is absolute essential reading (even more than the -- justifiably -- better-known Library of Babel), since the fact that things disappear unless kept in memory is exactly how the digital world works.