{"id":939,"date":"2014-06-07T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T15:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=939"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:19:42","slug":"thealeph","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/madness-has-its-reasons\/thealeph\/","title":{"rendered":"thealeph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I come now to the ineffable center<\/a> of my tale; it is here that a writer\u2019s hopelessness<\/a> begins. Every language is an alphabet of symbols the employment of which assumes a past shared by its interlocutors. How can one transmit to other the infinite<\/a> Aleph, which my timorous memory can scarcely contain? In a similar situation, mystics<\/a> have employed a wealth of emblems: to signify the deity, a Persian mystic speaks of a bird that somehow is all birds; Alain de Lille speaks of a sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere; Ezekiel, of an angel with four faces, facing east and west, north and south at once<\/a>. (It is not for nothing that I call to mind these inconceivable analogies; they bear a relation to the Aleph.) Perhaps the gods<\/a> would not deny me the discovery of an equivalent image, but then this report would be polluted with literature, with falseness. And besides, the central problem\u2014the enumeration, even partial enumeration, of infinity\u2014is irresolvable. In that unbounded<\/a> moment, I saw millions of delightful and horrible acts<\/a>; none amazed me so much as the fact that all occupied the same point, without superposition and without transparency. What my eyes saw was simultaneous; what I shall write is successive, because language is successive. Something of it, though, I will capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jorge Luis Borges. The Aleph<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I come now to the ineffable center of my tale; it is here that a writer\u2019s hopelessness begins. Every language is an alphabet of symbols the employment of which assumes a past shared by its interlocutors. How can one transmit to other the infinite Aleph, which my timorous memory can scarcely contain? In a similar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/939\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}