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I’m a huge fan of his short story Funes the Memorious. Link: https://ia801405.us.archive.org/10/items/HeliganSecretsOfTheLostGardens/BorgesJorgeLuis-FunesTheMem

• f1shy 2y ago
  Which is in Borges words "a long allegory of insomnia" :)
  • kouru225 2y ago
    ... Interesting... I have a tendency to not sleep... But mostly I like it for it's obsession over the deluge of information that we sift through on a daily basis. Borges perfectly described this issue a decade before Shannon would invent the concept of the bit and provide the foundation for the cognitive revolution