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October 16, 2005
Borges' Labyrinths
I believe Borges invented a mental maze with this piece. He explores the freedom to invent a completely new world, complete with a philosophy of idealism and how that influences its language, literature, institutions, "history" and "future".
Within this labyrinth of Tlon exists a different perspective and approach to the whole thought-process. It's interesting how Borges designed their ideals in response to their sense of time, their physical environment. He provides an immense amount of detail, even describing the weight and emotion inflicted by the foreign material from Tlon.
It's difficult to imagine creating a new world, a new society, to break away from what we know in this world. I feel like we're always hoping to do so, bit by bit, to make at least our own space or a larger part thereof, improved in some way. Borges took this on by creating his own complex planet.
Posted by Angela Pablo at October 16, 2005 08:21 PM