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The metaphor of the library is the metaphor of the world. We search for the infinite in the finite, and we find it nowhere but in language itself.

— Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
6mo ago

An irrational number — a number that cannot be expressed as a fraction, the ratio between two whole numbers — π unmoors our basic intuitions about reality with its disquieting whisper of an infinity beyond the grasp of reason.

7mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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