Monday, April 14, 2014

Jorge Luis Borges. "Circular Ruins" And "The Library of Babel"

1st Paragraph - Circular Ruins

The man who was called 'Tacitum man' manages to reach a ruin that was a temple. There he sleeps and intends dreams about a man. He was attended to by the natives so all he did was is sleep to carry on his dreams about that imaginary man. He was disturbed when he could not dream for a few days due to insomnia, he was very restless. Soon enough he created a person organ by organ, his son. The son would've been only a product of someone else's dreams. And soon enough to protect his son, the man himself finds out that he was also a product of someone else's dream.

This is like the circle of life.


2nd Paragraph - The Library of Babel

This library had several hexagon shaped rooms in which four walls had books shelfs that had thirty two matching books but the title did not match the inner contents of the book. The library seemed to follow two rules one being that there were 25 writing symbolism and the library existed since forever, there were other readers as well. Most of the books did not make any sense but someone said that there is that one master book that explains all the books in the library with translation of the 25 characters. 

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