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A 3 page consideration of the story by Jorge Luis Borges. This paper considers the story from the perspective of postmodernism v modernism. No additional sources are listed.
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prelude to a world where stories could be interlinked with concepts and events within a printed page. This world, of course, is the world of hypertext, a world that
is epitomized by the World Wide Web where we can bounce around among interrelated topics all at the click of a mouse button. Borges story is the story of
a labyrinth where no man can successfully navigate to the other side. Rather than the rigid form, design and hierarchy that characterize modernism, there is an inherent anarchy, chance,
and indeterminacy in Borges postmodern world. The Garden of Forking Paths is never navigated in one particular way.
A man cannot move effortlessly from one side to the other side without diverging on one path or another. This is, of course, intentional on Borges part. The
"garden", in fact, has no other side but instead has an endless number of sides. Thus the name "The Garden of the Forking Paths". Every path leads not
to one destination but to any combination of thousands of destinations. Borges introduces the concept of the unsolvable interlinked labyrinth through the pursuits
of Yu Tsun, the great grandchild of the philosopher Tsui Pen who quit all other pursuits in life simply for the sake of writing a book and building the unsolvable
labyrinth, a labyrinth "in which all men would lose their way" (p. 70). Tsui Pen had written the book but no one could find the labyrinth.
Up until the character Dr. Stephen Alberts revelation as to the real meaning of Tsui Pens labyrinth everyone, even Yu Tsun, thought that Tsui Pen had
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