Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina
Paradox Para: beside as in “parallel” Para: beside as in “parallel” Dox: opinion as in “orthodox”
René Magritte Belgian Surrealist painter Belgian Surrealist painter
The Spirit of Geometry
The Empire of Light
The Pleasure Principle
The Treachery of Images
A Sense of Reality
STORIES Funes the Memorious Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
ESSAYS Kafka and His Precursors Avatars of the Tortoise
Zeno’s Paradox (Zeno of Elea)
“We (the undivided divinity operating within us) have dreamt our world. We have dreamt it as firm, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and durable in time; but in its architecture we have allowed tenuous and eternal crevices of unreason which tell us it is false.” Borges, “Avatars of the Tortoise”
The Garden of Forking Paths Hypertext
Raymond Queneau
Cent mille milliards de poèmes Ten Thousand Billion Poems
Marc Saporta Composition No. 1
Paradoxical fiction
William Gibson Agrippa
Shelley Jackson Skin