Week 5 - Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
At first, I was intrigued by this week's reading simply from its title. I thought I knew what a labyrinth was, but I looked it up to see what google described it as - a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze. Funny enough, this description of a labyrinth seemed highly fitting to my experience with these stories and Jorge Luis Borges’ writing in general. Each story felt “ irregular ” to me and certainly difficult to find my way while reading them. So in that sense, the intriguing title did live up to my expectation, but maybe not in the way I would've hoped for. I found there to be a lot of themes related to the idea of games and play and how sometimes we enjoy making things difficult for ourselves or changing normally occurring things to make them irregular in order to have fun. As mentioned in the lecture, his interest is in also changing the rules. I’m wondering if some people feel this way about complic...