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| author | Marc Coquand <marc@mccd.space> | 2024-05-16 13:59:36 -0500 |
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| committer | Marc Coquand <marc@mccd.space> | 2024-05-16 13:59:36 -0500 |
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diff --git a/README.template.org b/README.template.org index 7f1899a..9e71aca 100644 --- a/README.template.org +++ b/README.template.org @@ -2,17 +2,14 @@ #+BEGIN_QUOTE -"The explanation is obvious. The Garden of Forking Paths is a picture, incomplete -yet not false, of the universe such as Ts'ui Pen conceived it to be. Differing from +"...Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us -exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me, you have come to my gate. In -another, you, crossing the garden, have found me dead. In yet another, I say these -very same words, but am an error, a phantom." +exist." - Garden of Forking Paths, Borges #+END_QUOTE |