From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 12:37:55 MST
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:36:29AM +0100, Amara Graps wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if you know about Julio Cortazar. He's another South
> American writer. I find his short stories very spooky, and very
> unforgettable.
Sounds a bit like something Borges would write.
This kind of recursive storytelling seems to become more and more
accessible as we move into a world of virtualities and multiple layers
of implementation. I think they would be extremely disturbing or
incomprehensible from the 19th century.
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