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A comment on Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Luis Borges (1968).

Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by siraben on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:44PM (#26372947)
One of my favorite short stories by Jorge Luis Borges is The Library of Babel[0], in which characters live in an infinite library that enumerates all possible strings of a certain length in book form. It even has an online version[1]! You can find the version of this post at[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

[1] https://libraryofbabel.info/

[2] https://libraryofbabel.info/book.cgi?c4rswwjyq92rx9b0t433js5...

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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by dcolkitt on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:41PM (#26373192)
"You who read me, are you sure you understand my language?”
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Re:Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Lui... by glial on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:54AM (#26377436)
Agreed, it is wonderful. Funes the Memorious is also delightfully thought-provoking. It’s about an individual that remembers absolutely everything.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious

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