Monday, February 9, 2015

open labyrinths

all these open labyrinths, public domain prime numbers. you can hide the

chesire cat but not its grin.


J.L. Borges writes about two labyrinths, one of them being a desert,

and Chuang-Tzu (Zhuangzi) uses the expression “hiding the world in the

world”1 – steganography as non-steganography.


1 But if you could hide the world in the world, so that there was

nowhere to which it could be removed, this would be the grand reality of

the ever-during Thing. –Book VI: Part I, Section VI, 6. Other

translations: i) You think you do right to hide little things in big

ones, and yet they get away from you. But if you were to hide the world

in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final

reality of the constancy of things. ii) Hiding something small within

something larger might seem like the appropriate thing to do, yet

anything could still be carted off. If a man were to hide everything in

the world within the world, there would be no place left for anything to

be removed to. Living things are already constantly in this great

situation.


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