mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Jan 20
decided to throw together a modern retranslation of Borges — Ragnarök
#borgesposting
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Aug 19, 2023

oh! the internet archive has two books of the Borges/di Giovanni translations: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Jorge%20Luis%20Borges%20and%20Norman%20Thomas%20di%20Giovanni%22

#borges #borgesposting

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Jul 1, 2023

jorge luis borges parody "yahoo, google, orbis cuil-us" about a machine learning search engine trained on an encyclopedia that consumes the world

#borges #cuil #borgesposting

mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Mar 5, 2023

jorge luis borges always goes "i know a spot" and then takes himself to a park where he sits on a bench and meets his past and future selves in a simultaneity so ambiguous that it is unclear which one narrated the story

#borges #borgesposting

Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 5, 2023

@tomw People out here trying to make the Library of Babel a reality

#Borges #borgesposting #library

https://libraryofbabel.info/

Library of Babel

A project towards a universal library. By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters.

mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Dec 8, 2022
#borgesposting An outrageous and despicable suggestion. The Prussian spy Hans Rabener, alias Viktor Runeberg, drew an automatic pistol on Captain Richard Madden, the bearer of an arrest warrant. In self-defence, Madden inflicted wounds from which Runeberg later died.
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)Dec 8, 2022
#borgesposting He does not know (no one can know) my innumerable contrition and weariness.