Re: Thoughts - Conlangs and culture

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:12:12 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
> This immediately brought to mind the Aleph of Jorge Luis Borges.
> Have you
> read that story? (An Aleph is a point from which all things in the
> world
> (past, present and IIRC future-- any such thing in Ebisedian?) may
> be
> glimpsed. In the story, this particular Aleph was located under the
> basement stairs in a friend's house.
> Question for anyone:  Is this concept of "Aleph" something Borges
> found in Jewish mysticism/mythology, as I'd suspect??
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It might be... i'm not much of a mystic, so i don't really know much
about it except that i have heard ideas that associate the letter aleph
with ideas of unity or connection.


-Stephen (Steg)
"dude, you have the most skillz.  skillz overload... dudewtf."
     ~ 'armenian from bulgaria' prayer?