Very Bad Wizards
Episode 332: Talking to Myself ("The Other" by Jorge Luis Borges)
May 12, 20261h 54m · 19,878 words
Show notes
David and Tamler talk about Jorge Luis Borges' disorienting short story "The Other." A 70-year-old Borges sits on a bench by the Charles River and who should he encounter but himself as a 19-year-old, by the Rhône River in 1918 Geneva. Is this a dream? Who is dreaming it? What does the Heraclitean river metaphor reveal about this impossible meeting?
Highlighted moments
It's essentially just like, your cock is so huge. Oh my God, it's the best one I've ever seen.
“Turing did not say consciousness in that Turing paper. Like, he was not talking about whether or not a machine was conscious explicitly. He was just talking about whether it's intelligent.”
“Gradual blindness is not tragic. It's like the slowly growing darkness of a summer evening.”
“The other man dreamed me, but he did not dream me rigorously. He dreamed, I now realize the impossible date on that dollar bill.”
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