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Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number or men.

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There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding to the word "moon,", but there is a verb which in English would be "to moon" or "to moonate." "The moon rose above the river" is hlor u fang axaxaxas mlo, or literally: "upward behind the onstreaming it mooned."

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@rl_dane Wow. No nouns, kinda verbs-only? Maybe like physics, right? E=mc^2 ?

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@golemwire

#Borges is a mind-blow. 😄

You gotta read the Library of Babel. It's the most computer-y work of fiction I've ever read from before the computer era.

https://archive.org/details/TheLibraryOfBabel

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