Borges - Labyrinths (1641)

[sufi]

I can barely remember them, but that one of the whale swallowing the man's just given me a jolt of memory. The only story I really remember is my dad reading me the one about the crocodile grabbing the elephant's trunk.

that one is nightmarish too

 

[...]

I enjoy his work... i mean I've only read a couple of his books but I've seen virtually all his films which normally tend to temper the repetitive and circular nature of his books with, well, with a load of tits basically.
Typical Robbe-Grillet plot is there may or may not be a murder and some guy may or may not be investigating it and everything is very confusing and he describes several scenes several times and then at the end, as a result of investigating the murder that may or may not have happened the guy makes the murder happen for definite. Or maybe not. Probably.

This is a pretty good description of these films. Total garbage. Boring, too.

 

[okzharp]

The Butterfly That Stamped is so amazing.

 

[okzharp]

The Boris Karloff readings of The Just So Stories are extraordinary

 

[0bleak]

This is a pretty good description of these films. Total garbage. Boring, too.

There's also a negative side.

 

[sus]

Our collective amazement: alleys and sidestreets, snaking hallways, the Internet of tunnels. The labyrinth has no center, and if you were to reach it anyway, it could only devour you. ("On the other side is death. On the other side is always death.") Every view is just another view; every chamber is just another chamber, in an endless series of backrooms...

 

[Murphy]

Our collective amazement: alleys and sidestreets, snaking hallways, the Internet of tunnels. The labyrinth has no center, and if you were to reach it anyway, it could only devour you. ("On the other side is death. On the other side is always death.") Every view is just another view; every chamber is just another chamber, in an endless series of backrooms...

not advocating you become a Niner of indulge their grotesque beliefs beyond surface veneers but the O9A’s Labyrinthos Mythologicus summarises a self-made matrix to lose your ethics/morality in

 

[sus]

We need a board alignment grid. Is Wash chaotic neutral? Is Tea lawful evil? These things must be recorded and known.

 

[sus]

Luke is chaotic neutral-good. Clinamenic is lawful good, in terms of personality, but chaotic good by aspirational philosophy.

Woops and Wes are true neutral.

 

[sus]

What is Version? Neutral good?

 

[sus]

Craner, are you lawful neutral?

Corpsey is neutral neutral.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Corpsey is neutral neutral.

Not sure if this is relevant, but I decided earlier that corpsey is the person most likely to be a regular contributor to r/custard.

 

[Clinamenic]

Not sure if this is relevant, but I decided earlier that corpsey is the person most likely to be a regular contributor to r/custard.

Ah, “contributing to the old r/custard” as they say

 

[Mr. Tea]

Ah, “contributing to the old r/custard” as they say

In the same way people used to use up all their rich food before the start of Lent, he's getting it out of his system because it's now late October.

 

[version]

Just read a good one in his Book of Sand called 'There Are More Things'. It's dedicated to Lovecraft and leans into horror more than usual.

THERE ARE
MORE THINGS
To the memory of H. P. Lovecraft
An entertainment by Jorge Luis Borges

 

[woops]

Just read a good one in his Book of Sand called 'There Are More Things'. It's dedicated to Lovecraft and leans much more into horror than usual.

is that the mistaken-for-the-Messiah story?

edited to make less spoilery

 

[version]

is that the mistaken-for-the-Messiah story?

No, I'm trying not to spoil it too much, but it's about someone buying the narrator's uncle's house and changing it in a particular way.

Unless there's more than one, I think you're on about 'The Sect of the Thirty'. That one's even better and follows the one I've just mentioned.

“The Sect of the Thirty” — Jorge Luis Borges

“The Sect of the Thirty” by Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Andrew Hurley The original manuscript may be consulted in the library at the University of Leyden; it is in Latin, but its oc…

biblioklept.org

 

[woops]

that's the one that sticks in my memory

 

[Mr. Tea]

No, I'm trying not to spoil it too much, but it's about someone buying the narrator's uncle's house and changing it in a particular way.

Sweet Mother of Christ, don't tell me he added a rear kitchen extension without planning permission!?