Talk:The Aleph and Other Stories
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On February 23, 2008, I got rid of the following paragraph: "The book itself comprises many short stories that tie to Borges's leitmotif of the recapitulation of experience. Borges believed that there was nothing new, and that all present-day experiences are analogs of experiences already lived. Borges's central premise was that while the details may differ, there will always be an essential thread tying any so-called discovery, revelation, et cetera, that one made hundreds or thousands of years before.[citation needed] The Aleph, taken from the Hebrew letter א, provides the ultimate example of this phenomenon. In Borges's description, it is that point in the universe that contains everything in the universe in a single place. It sums up Borges's belief that all human experiences are not only linked, but identical.[citation needed]"
To me, this seemed like someone's very subjective reading of the story. It did not cite any sources, and it was probably doing more harm than good, and does not jive at all with what I know about Borges's philosophy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.231.32.28 (talk) 21:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)