On page 69, Borges states, “the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are hateful because they multiply and proclaim it.” In this given time and place that the story takes place in, the natural philosophical truths or principles are that the universe is just an illusion and is not real so if you do anything that magnifies this illusion or false world, then it is wrong. By having children you are creating life in this illusion and thus creating more of an illusion and by looking in the mirror at yourself, you are looking at an illusion, because you may do one thing on the right but it is really on the left. This deals with magical realism, because it deals with fantastic/phantasmagoric characters/worlds versus real people/worlds.
A lot of the content in this story has to deal with metaphysical philosophy on account of a world known as Tlön which is world or universe that is of a different time and place. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek to amaze and astound, because in their view, metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy. Tlön is a fantasy world which is the philosophical issue in this story. In this place, “while we sleep here, we are awake somewhere else, so that every man is in fact two men,” states Borges on page 74. In magical realism, this statement would refer to parallelism and the idea that there is such thing as an alternate universe where everything is the same somewhere else. Also, Borges writes, “Tlön goes so far as to deny the existence of time” on page 74. In magical realism, everything is timeless like in this world where the past is the present recollection, the present is undefined and indefinite and the future has no reality, because it hasn’t happened yet. Also, the books are timeless. Moreover, Tlön’s geometry is a mix of Expressionism and Post-Expressionism. Expressionism deals with tactile representation and Post-Expressionism reintegrate’s reality into the heart of visibility like Tlön’s visual geometry. The term, juxtaposition, is introduced in magical realism and deals with the connection of two things. Borges mentions this term when he is talking about people being able to conceive the universe as a series of mental processes that occur not in space but in time on page 73. On page 30 in the magical realism packet, Roh mentions the word, “idealism” which unifies abstract art in Postexpressionist pictures. Similarly, Borges talks about things derived from language such as metaphysics that create this idealism and perfect representation of this planet on the bottom of page 72. Leal stats, “magical realism is but the discovery of the mysterious relationship between men and his circumstances,” on page 122. The men on Tlön went through many intricate paths and passageways in order to reach their destination and decipher the many discoveries found on Tlön.
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On page 69, Borges states, “the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are hateful because they multiply and proclaim it.” In this given time and place that the story takes place in, the natural philosophical truths or principles are that the universe is just an illusion and is not real so if you do anything that magnifies this illusion or false world, then it is wrong. By having children you are creating life in this illusion and thus creating more of an illusion and by looking in the mirror at yourself, you are looking at an illusion, because you may do one thing on the right but it is really on the left. Mirrors are always negative and give you a vision of the parallel universe where many "you's" exist simultaneously. The discovery of Uqbar is a connection of a mirror and an encyclopedia. It exists only in reference works (ideas and facts of the world) and exists nowhere else. This deals with magical realism, because it deals with fantastic/phantasmagoric characters/worlds versus real people/worlds. The characters are real, but the situations aren't real. There is a binary between reality and fantasy. It makes you question whether or not our world is real, because just because we are told that it is real does not necessarily mean that it is real. George Berkeley talks about ideal immaterial-ism and that something in itself does not exist, but your senses tell you that it exists. Material things do not exist except for in our minds. A lot of the content in this story has to deal with metaphysical philosophy on account of a world known as Tlön which is world or universe that is of a different time and place. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek to amaze and astound, because in their view, metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy. Tlön is a fantasy world which is the philosophical issue in this story. Borges states on page 74, “In this place, while we sleep here, we are awake somewhere else, so that every man is in fact two men.” In magical realism, this statement would refer to parallelism and the idea that there is such thing as an alternate universe where everything is the same somewhere else. Also, Borges writes, “Tlön goes so far as to deny the existence of time” on page 74. In magical realism, everything is timeless like in this world where the past is the present recollection, the present is undefined and indefinite and the future has no reality, because it hasn’t happened yet. The books are also timeless. Moreover, Tlön’s geometry is a mix of Expressionism and Post-Expressionism. Expressionism deals with tactile representation and Post-Expressionism reintegrate’s reality into the heart of visibility like Tlön’s visual geometry. The term, juxtaposition, is introduced in magical realism and deals with the connection of two things. Borges mentions this term when he is talking about people being able to conceive the universe as a series of mental processes that occur not in space but in time on page 73. On page 30 in the magical realism packet, Roh mentions the word, “idealism” which unifies abstract art in Postexpressionist pictures. Similarly, Borges talks about things derived from language such as metaphysics that create this idealism and perfect representation of this planet on the bottom of page 72. Leal stats, “magical realism is but the discovery of the mysterious relationship between men and his circumstances,” on page 122. The men on Tlön went through many intricate paths and passageways in order to reach their destination and decipher the many discoveries found on Tlön.
ReplyDeleteThe world will one day be Tlon in which all races and everyone will be one and together as one like a utilitarian environment. This story goes against utilitarianism and the world recreating itself like mirrors recreate images of you.