Then I saw the Aleph... And here begins my despair as a writer. - TopicsExpress



          

Then I saw the Aleph... And here begins my despair as a writer. All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a shared past. How then, can I translate into words the limitless Aleph, which my floundering mind can scarcely encompass?... Really, what I want to do is impossible, for any listing of an endless series is doomed to be infinitesimal. In that single gigantic instant I saw millions of acts both delightful and awful; not one of them amazed me more than the fact that all of them occupied the same point in space, without overlapping or transparency. What my eyes beheld was simulations, but what I shall now write down will be successive, because language is successive. Nonetheless, I will try to recollect what I can. - Jorge Luis Borges
Posted on: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 07:00:23 +0000

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