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    <body><![CDATA[کتابخانه بابل با ترجمه کاوه سید حسینی حدودا 260صفحه است.<br/>در مورداین اثر همین بس که یکی از گرانقدر ترین مجموعه های داستان کوتاه زمانه است.خود بورخس شخصا علاقه ای به ر...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8027518">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily one of the strangest books I've ever read. I actually ordered it by accident, thinking it was an anthology. But actually this entire slender volume is devoted to one Borges short story, complete with beautiful etchings showing that his impossible library is actually possible. While it's not w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6476832">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[بورخس لامصب همچین تو رو توی هزار توهایش درگیر میکند که هیچ چیزی نمیتواند تو روئ از اون دنیاهای پیچیده بیرون کند...شاهکار ادبیات قرن بیست...مکاملا برخلاف مارکز که هیچ ع...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3988691">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[   چند باره خواندن هزار تو ها و کتابخانه های بی پایان بورخس همیشه وسوسه ام میکند. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this is incredible.  an amazing story in  picture book format. a beautiful book but impossible to find.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[بورخس رو بخاطر ایده های نابش دوست دارم]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a world without end]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Borges's short piece (the entire text is approximately twenty pages) revolves around the conceit of the library as a metaphor for the universe; each room a hexagon lined on four sides with shelves, and then the librarian's quarters (all are librarians) and then the doorway into the next identical ro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9265163">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was terribly disappointed by this book. Granted I did not finish it. I flipped through it. Found it to be mostly mundane and incredibly boring descriptive sentences. (stereo instructions comes to mind) There was nothing that seemed even remotely interesting about this book. I've read some quotes t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43823663">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Liked the combination of fiction, fantastic realistic social approaches and sophisticated thinking about text, reading, the world as existing one, ....<br/><br/>great short stories ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All the metaphysics you'll ever need, in a slim, little parable.  (Like &quot;Where's Waldo&quot; but instead of a striped cap, look for Wittgenstein's tautologies, McKenna's &quot;cosmic giggle,&quot; quantum super-position, and the Fibonacci Sequence.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This story by Borges offers justification for genetic computation (genetic algorithms and genetic programming) and reveals the power of Darwinism.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've quoted from this classic many times on term papers.  Borges is difficult but worthwhile.  &quot;Imagine a library with no walls...&quot;  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The most efficient parable for life and the universe ever written. Also contains proof of the existence of a god (in my opinion).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been wanting to read this ever since we listened to part of Library: An Unquiet History carpooling to class.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Borges understood that the purpose of fantasy and imagination was to say something about reality, not to escape from it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant lemniscate-infinite possibilities in any Borges memorious library]]></body>
    
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