Comment by kouru225

9 days ago

I’m a huge fan of his short story Funes the Memorious. Link: https://ia801405.us.archive.org/10/items/HeliganSecretsOfThe...

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f1shy  8 days ago

Which is in Borges words "a long allegory of insomnia" :)

  • kouru225  2 days ago

    ... Interesting... I have a tendency to not sleep...

    But mostly I like it for it's obsession over the deluge of information that we sift through on a daily basis. Borges perfectly described this issue a decade before Shannon would invent the concept of the bit and provide the foundation for the cognitive revolution