Borges - Labyrinths (1641)
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On Exactitude in Science
Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley.
...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a
single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety
of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the
Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and
which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so
fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map
was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the
Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are
Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is
no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
— Suarez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley.
...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a
single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety
of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the
Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and
which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so
fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map
was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the
Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are
Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is
no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
— Suarez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658
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seeing that there's a Borges thread reminds me that when i finally got around to Ficciones(which is basically the same stories but in a different order tell me if i'm mistaken)
I was actually quite surprised at how accessible the stories were, not to say that there wasn't any depth to his stories but it felt like to me he was doing a smiliar thing to what Lovecraft, Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith were in the pulps around the same but with a more literate style and esoteric frame of reference.
I was actually quite surprised at how accessible the stories were, not to say that there wasn't any depth to his stories but it felt like to me he was doing a smiliar thing to what Lovecraft, Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith were in the pulps around the same but with a more literate style and esoteric frame of reference.
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Either way you have to read em all and the Universal History of Infamy too.
as far as comparing him to the other writers i haven't read Conan or CAS but for sure Lovecraft saw himself as a serious philosopher/thinker, Borges probably had a wider frame of literary reference and they end up in very different places.
as far as comparing him to the other writers i haven't read Conan or CAS but for sure Lovecraft saw himself as a serious philosopher/thinker, Borges probably had a wider frame of literary reference and they end up in very different places.
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Smith is probably the closest cause he was a poet before he did short stories.
he's his own kettle of strange fish
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nah i think that was August Derleth but he was one of the guys who worked within the mythos and did his own set of stories which were defined by the landscapes and cycles he set them in Hyperborea,Zothique etc etc
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i feel like Luka would like Ashton Smith's poems especially the Hashish eater
luka
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my god its long
The Hashish Eater -or- the Apocalypse of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith
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woops
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you should never say this kind of thing. it's an invitation for luke to say how shit whatever it is you're suggesting.
woops
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no you don't
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The map IS the territory.
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