The Garden of Forking Paths. Mon Aug 24, 2020. 6pm pt
Session four of #bookclubhouse!
What: The Garden of Forking Paths, by Jorge Luis Borges, full text here (20min read)
When: Monday, Aug 24th, 2020. 6pm PST.
Where: Clubhouse! in the #bookclubhouse room
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About the piece
Steph suggest this story both as a reaction to last week’s piece and an escape from our amorphous experience of the four walls of quarantining.
From the Wikipedia:
The story’s theme has been said to foreshadow the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.[1][2] It may have been inspired by work of the philosopher and science fiction author Olaf Stapledon.[1]
Borges’s vision of “forking paths” has been cited as inspiration by numerous new media scholars, in particular within the field of hypertext fiction.[3][4][5] Other stories by Borges that express the idea of infinite texts include “The Library of Babel” and “The Book of Sand”.[3]
