Wieder einmal dem Text von #JorgeLuisBorges begegnet, in dem er auf wenigen Seiten das unendliche und geheimnisvolle Wesen seiner Weltbibliothek beschreibt: #DieBibliothekVonBabel (1941)
Der knapp zehnseitige Text ist etwas Besonderes. Er entzieht sich immer wieder dem vollständigen Verständnis durch seine Leser:innen, verliert dabei aber nichts von seiner Faszination.
Im #internetarchive ist der Text in deutscher Sprache frei verfügbar:
“I remember the first novel in English I read through was a Scottish novel called The House with the Green Shutters. […] When I read that, I wanted to be Scotch.”
—Jorge Luis Borges, interviewed by the Paris Review in July 1966
"Of all the games, I prefer the one about the other [me]. I pretend that he comes to visit me and that I show him my house.... With great obeisance I [speak] to him.... Sometimes I make a mistake, and the two of us laugh heartily."
"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity.... The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."
Many authors depict the Minotaur sympathetically. For example, Borges presents a lonely, melancholy figure yearning to escape the Labyrinth while Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" presents a bestial child struggling to learn concepts such as "sunlight" or "family."
"My loneliness does not pain me, because I know my redeemer will finally rise above the dust.... What will he be like? ... A bull or a man? A bull with the face of a man? Or will he be like me, [a man with the face of a bull]?"
The peryton is a monster that resembles a stag with wolf teeth, eagle wings and talons, and a human shadow. Often thought of as mythological, it was actually created by Jorge Luis Borges in his "Book of Imaginary Beings" (1957) (though winged stags do appear in heraldry).
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