John C. Wright on Borges & Wolfe

The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Apr 2010
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5583

Gwern Branwen19 Apr 2010, 23:42
http://johncwright.livejournal.com/331497.html Connects 3 Borges story to TBOTNS. I don't think the connections will be much controversial. (I do disagree with his theory of Borges as a parodist of non-theistic philosophy; that he sees Borges that way says more about Wright than Borges. Borges can't believe in the Christian God because, as he says in the introduction to Book of Imaginary Beings, the Trinity is more fantastic an imagining than any he could devise. To know theology is not to believe: "He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.")
gwern

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