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It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death. (Borges)

The Garden of Forking paths illuminates the

almost

infinite

function of hypertext

to drive users / readers / librarians

towards insanity --

the apparent need for knowledge of everything, in almost God-like proportions, is what brings on the ultimate downfall of man.

However,

the computing device itself, with the ability to read in languages and scopes unknown and unfathomable to us,

replicate a God-like sensibility towards knowledge and cryptic information.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets. (Borges)

Though "Albert" is not the narrator's sworn enemy, the only way - as a spy - to relay important information is to kill him.

Therefore, in this particular reality, they are enemies.

In [1] all [2] fictional works, [3] each time [4] a man [5] is confronted with [6] several alternatives, [7] [8] [9] [10] he chooses one [11] and eliminates the others; in the fiction of Ts’ui Pên, he chooses— simultaneously—all of them. [12]

dizzying an in of parallel convergent divergent, growing, times a and of He infinite believed series net times. in (Borges)

--X7tu7ps^ (talk) 10:30, 4 October 2017 (MDT)