(This is probably not going to be the most sensical posting.)
After reading The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, one quotation jumped out at me, and it was this:
“…everything happens to a man precisely.”
On a surface level this quote is very interesting to me. Yes, it’s always easy to wax poetically on the fleeting nature of time, and how today is just tomorrow’s yesterday, but it really seemed to resonate with this passage’s idea of Hypertext and how one thing so seemingly universal could be read in a number of different ways. In The Garden of Forking Paths, for example, the main character makes note of how instantaneous the present is. He mentioned how he might die at any moment; that the bombs might drop on him at any time; that his life was about to end. I just felt like the way he viewed time was a little unique. While he was viewing life presently I thought of how some people, myself included, view the world in terms of the future (sometimes even the past).
