pynchon/borges

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 29/06/2006:

>> But what about von Göll's "I can take down your fences and your 
>> labyrinth walls, I can lead you back to the Garden you hardly 
>> remember" (388)? Is there a Borges sampling or allusion in that 
>> couplet?
>
> E.g.,
>
> http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/forking_paths.htm

NB also:
[...] Here, then, is the explanation of the novel's contradictions. 
Fang, let us say, has a secret; a stranger calls at his door; Fang 
resolves to kill him. Naturally, there are several possible outcomes: 
Fang can kill the intruder, the intruder can kill Fang, they both can 
escape, they both can die, and so forth. [...]

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