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"I forget. Is this Tlön or Uqbar?"

"I suppose it depends, but, on the other hand, I can't remember which way it goes. The guide said in the bus."

For a while they just sat in Pierre Ménard's Labyrinth of Food, pulling greasy French fries out of a paper cup. Corinne looked into her souvenir mirror. It didn't look like a different person.

"The scenery's nice, anyway. Not like the Library."

"I liked the glowing fruit."

"You weren't supposed to eat those."

"Oops, the bus leaves for the Circular Ruins at two."

"Let's ditch it this time."

So they did.

Date: 2004-07-17 09:25 pm (UTC)
ext_8707: Taken in front of Carnegie Hall (monterey)
From: [identity profile] ronebofh.livejournal.com
Which reminds me... is it just me, or did Richard Feynman come up with his "sum of histories" theory after reading Borges's "Garden of Forking Paths?

Date: 2004-07-17 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
Lots of people have seen Hugh Everett in it.

Date: 2004-07-17 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
FAQ from a fan... (http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm)

Biographical information. (http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/everett/main.html) I got the feeling, reading Everett's dissertation, that he was less hardcore about it than some of his followers are.

Date: 2004-07-17 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] samantha2074.livejournal.com
MAAAAAAAT! Can we go to the Borges theme park? Please, please?

Date: 2004-07-17 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
I kind of imagined it more as a package tour of various Borges worlds, which had become somewhat dependent on the tourist trade and clotted with festival-marketplace shopping areas in the inner harbor region.

Date: 2004-07-17 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swinehund.livejournal.com
Can I ride the Aleph? Pleeeeeeeease?

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