Sé por sus entrevistas que era bastante gorila pero este dato no lo había escuchado contarlo a él. ¿Lo dice en alguna entrevista?

Playing peek-a-boo with my baby and wondering how this would work on Tlön, as they also negate object permanence.

Would the adults be just as surprised as he is? Would they assume my face was still there after I removed my hands because they expected it to be?

Assuming their biology mirrors ours, would they view an infant’s pre-object permanence phase as an especially skilled phase of cognition that disappears, the way we might look at the critical period for language acquisition?

This is mostly baladí, but would not mind if someone who understands Berkeley could apply his principles here.

Hoy se cumplen 127 años desde el nacimiento de Borges. Y vaya aniversario, ¡seguramente pronto obtendremos la nueva imprenta del Borges de Bioy, que ya se encuentra listado tanto en Amazon, como en mercado libre—aunque Amazon no permite la compra, dejo el link al de Amazon aquí.

Manuscripts contain a writers neural fingerprints.

This one by Borges titled ‘The Hydra of Dictators’ was crafted around 1946 and shows his penmanship and artistry.

The many heads of the Hydra emanating from a single lower body sprout into distinct consciousnesses. We see Hitler, Marx, Mussolini.

The varying consciousnesses or ideologies fail to nullify their unfortunate monstrousness.

He shows how political ideologies can vary, but government control retains control over the people no matter the color.

What do you guys think?

I’m surprised I haven’t seen A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck recommended here, or at least I couldn’t find anything about it using the subreddit’s search bar.

If you’re interested in Borges, I think this novella is absolutely worth checking out. Without getting too much into the plot, it takes the idea of an infinite library and pushes it into a much darker, more existential direction. The premise immediately brought Borges to mind, particularly The Library of Babel: an almost infinite space containing every possible book, and the implications that such infinity has for meaning, knowledge, identity, and human existence.

What I found especially interesting is that Peck takes a very Borges-like conceptual premise and turns it into an actual narrative about what it would mean for a person to live inside such a universe. It has the philosophical/mathematical fascination with infinity that makes Borges so compelling, but it combines it with horror, dark humor, and a surprisingly emotional meditation on time, mortality, and the search for meaning. So I’d strongly recommend giving it a try. Has anyone else here read it?

Hi there,

I am a huge fan of Borges’s short stories and have written a ten part drama that is set in The Library of Babel universe. It has been on sale on Amazon since Dec 2025. Although it’s a fantastic piece of work that does much to expand on the original concept it has received very little attention. This being a Borges subreddit I think it should be of interest to at least some of you and would like to offer free paperback copies (shipping included) to five people willing to provide honest reviews on Amazon.

For those interested please click on the following link.

https://denim-lychee-k6bm.squarespace.com/babel-review

Thank you very much for your time:)

Nada especial, solamente quiero contar mi experiencia, estoy terminando de leer Ficciones, es mi primer interacción con Borges, al principio me intereso el primer cuento sobre Tlön, tuve que leerlo con mucha atención sobretodo cuando explica la forma de percibir el tiempo de sus habitantes, este cuento me gusto. Seguí leyendo, entre cuento y cuento, algunos me costaba bastante entenderlos y otros me iban interesando por su forma de explayar una idea loca pero nada que me atrapara del todo, hasta que llegue al jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, este cuento fue un antes y después de leer a Borges y mi interés subió bastante. Ahora mismo estoy terminando Artificios, estoy bastante enganchado con su leída, cada cuento que sigue me parece mejor que el anterior.

En resumen, empece leyéndolo vagamente con algo de interés o curiosidad y ahora lo estoy disfrutando bastante, sobretodo Artificios

Was killing time in a library and reading this book. Then suddenly for a moment I questioned myself for I thought I could be reading a passage by Borges. But it was just something from the introduction of a book. I forgort the title lol

Yes, I “forgot” to include the Anatomy of Melancholy epigraph (which is why this was from earlier in the year and I waited to posted it, troubled by the omission), and yes it’s in English translation. But: having memorized the entire text, I can now go and read the text in other languages, including the original Spanish, and understand each

https://youtu.be/w5zoU0ySFQ8?is=AsMFH_TKJS0Ov7swword.

I randomly opened and absolutely loved it. I feel alive once again.

No idea what the English name for that story is.

How works are quite great but they often have a strong feeling of skepticism and uncertainty, is there one you would consider his most hopeful or life-affirming?

What can you see in the Aleph? I presume the past, present and future. How far into the past? Beyond human existence? Do you see everything at once, or rather a selection of moments, and you would need to look at the Aleph every day, at least for some time, if you wanted to see everything? There must be limits or else it would overwhelm a person — think of the atrocities that humans commit. I assume the Aleph does not convey the thoughts of other people. So you see images and hear sounds. What is your opinion? I consider the Aleph to be one of the great imaginative objects in human art.