Gentlefolk, for my 3,000th post, I give you Borges.

[Iverson]

Enjoy a paragraph from "The Library of Babel." Some links follow.

Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps the catalogue of catalogues; now that my eyes can hardly decipher what I write, I am preparing to die just a few leagues from the hexagon in which I was born. Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite. I say that the Library is unending. The idealists argue that the hexagonal rooms are a necessary from of absolute space or, at least, of our intuition of space. They reason that a triangular or pentagonal room is inconceivable. (The mystics claim that their ecstasy reveals to them a circular chamber containing a great circular book, whose spine is continuous and which follows the complete circle of the walls; but their testimony is suspect; their words, obscure. This cyclical book is God.) Let it suffice now for me to repeat the classic dictum: The Library is a sphere whose exact center is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

http://www.themodernword.com/borges/
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jatill/175/SUMSecret_miracle.htm
http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/borges/garden.htm

[JVS]

1. Congratulations

I always figured that your 3000th would be spat out in a flamewar with some of the usual suspects.
:party:

[KG]

2. wtg, my brother

:)

[ulysses]

3. congrats, Iverson!

You crazy, Borges-quoting leftist, you. :D :toast:

[newyawker99]

4. Congrats again Iverson!

:toast:

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. I've said it before, and I'll say it now

You're one of the richest veins of gold to be found in this mine called Democratic Underground. I really like the ethics on which your posts are apparently based. They don't seem to spring from the platforms or goals of one political party or another, but from some ideal you hold about How The Universe Should Be. That's very presumptuous of me, but that's my perception. You are appreciated, Iverson.

By the way, if you haven't seen it yet, take a look at the "hippies are scum" thread floating somewhere around the lounge a page or two in. You'll get a real kick out of our own version of the Hitler Youth.

[Iverson]

6. Thank you, but it was too easy ...

See, I married someone smarter than I am. Some of it rubbed off.

Many thanks for the kind words, Disgustipated, and I hope you like the Borges stuff.

:pals:

[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. O and thank you for the new start page

I've been casting about looking for a different Internet Explorer start page. I have now set it to themodernworld.com.

Thanks.

[SOteric]

8. What!!? 3,000 worthwhile and engaging

things to say already?

My how time flies. Congratulations!

:party: