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Borges & the Labyrinth of Mirrors w/ Aldous Asterion

Art of Darkness

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The Symbolism of the Olive

Borgas likes playing around with ideas of monism the Holy Spirit wrote all the books is one version of that he likes to say that every man who reads a line of Shakespeare is Shakespeare you know everyone is the same person in a sense so we have the Pierre Menard the Quo the Quiote short story which we might talk about well and this idea of the oneness. The unity of oneness and plurality is part of the the symbolism of the olive it's so the the gomatria value of so the olive is the the first letter It's the letter a essentially in Hebrew and it's as you know the each letter gets a numerical value.

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