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| Is the Garden of forking paths even true to its self? Could it ever be? Certainly the story is chronologically organized that by the end one has reached the beginning again, but that�s merely a trick. Borges cites The Arabian Nights, where the main character uses a �magical oversight of the copyist� to ensure that the when one reaches the middle of the story, the reader must then go to beginning and repeat, ad infinitum. But �The Garden of Forking Paths,� as far as I know, was printed on entirely mundane presses. I guess the question is, then, is it significant that Borges writes the story beginning with a narration voice talking about Liddell Hart�s book? I don�t believe that it is significant; that for the reader, the story begins when the reader begins, and not when the author says it begins. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| F.A.N.G. Has a secret: it is carrying the WMD's. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Let us consider a different story about time: �The Hounds of Tindalos� by Frank Belknap Long. Long�s interpretation of time is somewhat different than Borges�s. In �The Hounds of Tindalos� occultist and mathematician Halpin Chalmers takes magical Chinese drug, Liao, which will help him tear down walls of his perception and perceive the past and future, which in fact are constants, and blocked by the notion of time. Chalmers takes the drug and sees all points of the singular future, the past, and everything. Chalmers perceives the dinosaurs, the time before all like, and then he is �passing through unearthly angles [...] there are things I cannot distinguish. They move slowly through angles.� These things Chalmers sees are evil monsters which exist in the angles of time, and despise human beings because humans can be good, and these beings despise all which is good. One of these beings, which the Greeks called the hounds of Tindalos, spots Chalmers, and chases him back to the future. Chalmers attempts to hide in the present, and to wit he removes all the angular furniture in his apartment and rounds off every angle with plaster of paris, and then waits for the hounds to lose interest. However, things don�t work out for Halpin Chalmers.
�The Hounds of Tindalos� is a terrible story. If you should ever want to experience putting your head in an oven, but your utilities have been shut down, this book is a must. I don�t mean to say that Borges�s story is bad, but its idea is of entirely dubious value. |
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| "I will-God, they are breaking through! They are breaking through! Smoke is pouring from the corners of the walls. Their tongues- ahhh-" -Last words of Halpin Chalmers, pill popper. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Consider if you will the case of one Dr. Yu Tsun. Former professor of English at the Hochschule at Tsingtao, Murderer, Coward, Spy, and a dyed-in-the-wool agent, of the Twilight Zone. |
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