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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius: 5/5.

I had to read then reread this one. One of the more interesting and powerful works of fiction I’ve (ever) read…. 6/5

One of the schools goes so far as to deny the existence of time; it argues that the present is undefined and indefinite, the future has no reality except as present hope, and the past has no reality except as present recollection. Another posits that all time has already passed, so that our life is but the crepuscular memory, or crepuscular reflection, doubtlessly distorted and mutilated, of an irrecoverable process