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Blue Tigers (1977) |
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The protagonist, a Scotsman, chases down reports of a blue species of tigers sighted in village in Punjab, Pakistan. He never finds a blue tiger but ends up obtaining some magical stones on a hillside... (more) |
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The Book of Sand (1975) |
 | Jorge Luis Borges |
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"The line is made up of an infinite number of points;
the plane of an infinite number of lines;
the volume of an infinite number of planes;
the hypervolume of an infinite number of volumes.
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Death and the Compass (La Muerte y La Brujula) (1968) |
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
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This is considered one of Borges' greatest short stories, and was even made into a film by "RepoMan" director Alex Cox. The following review from Alejandro Satz explains the mathematical content, but... (more) |
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Funes el Memorioso [Funes, His Memory] (1942) |
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
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Borges' short story piece, “Funes, His Memory' (or in other translations, “Funes, The Memorious”) discusses the phenomenal memory of an acquaintance, Ireneo Funes. Funes, at age nineteen,... (more) |
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Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth (1951) |
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
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Two friends, a poet and a mathematician (who is described as the author of a study on "the theorem which Fermat did not write in the margin of a page of Diophantus") arrive at an abandoned house in the... (more) |
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The Library of Babel (1941) |
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
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Years ago, I read The Library of Babel in a volume of collected short
stories by [Argentinian] Jorge Luis Borges, published under the title,
Labyrinths and translated from the [Spanish]. Like many... (more) |
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The Lottery in Babylon [La lotería en Babilonia] (1941) |
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| Jorge Luis Borges |
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In what is clearly a metaphor for the apparent randomness of life (and the theological implications that follow), the great Argentinian writer Borges crafts a tale about the all important lottery in a... (more) |
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