El Jardin De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan Flashcards

1
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Title of el jardín

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El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan

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2
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What is the intertextuality if el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan

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Borges Mamés the story after Ts’ui penn’s book which is named after his garden

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3
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What is the book the excerpt of which makes up el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan

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Liddell Hart
La historia de la guerra Europea
A book not published until after Borges had published his story
Like Berkeley’s idealism and reader response theory - mind conjuring things into existence

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4
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What is interesting about the excerpt from la historia de la guerra europea that forms el jardín de senderos que se bifurcan

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Faltan los dos paginas iniciales

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5
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What happens that’s weird right at start of el jardín that’s weird

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There’s a footnote from the editor that’s is opinionated calling the “hipótesis odiosa y estrafalaria”

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6
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Duality between

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Yu Tsun

Richard madden

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7
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Madden described as

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Irlandés a las órdenes de Inglaterra

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8
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How does Yu Tsun describe himself near the beginning

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Soy un hombre cobarde

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9
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I wanted to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies

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Yo quería probarle que un amarillo podía salvar a sus ejércitos

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10
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When madden almost gets on train to ashgrove yu tsun is scared and then excited because

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Me dije que estaba empeñado mi duelo

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11
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Where does the train stop

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Se detuvo, casi en medio del campo. Nadie gritó el nombre de la estación.

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12
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Bizarre children

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Children at train station do not speech in the normal dialogue layout of starting on different lines as with Albert, they instead simply speak in italics and one of them asks them if he is going to the house of Stephen Albert and without yu tsun answering the question they tell Him the way

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13
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The kids say what about going left

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Toma ese camino a la izquierda y en cada encrucijada del camino dobla a la izquierda

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14
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What does Yu Tsun remember abt the kids instructions to take every left at every crossroads

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El consejo de siempre doblar a la izquierda me recordó que tal era el procedimiento común para describir el patio central de ciertos laberintos

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15
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Who is the ancestor of Yu Tsun

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No en vano soy bisnieto de aquel ts’ui pên

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16
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What did tsui pên do

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Renunció al poder temporal para escribir una novela

Para edificar un laberinto en el que se perdieran todos los hombres

17
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Labyrinth of labyrinths

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Laberinto de laberintos

18
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Profession of Albert

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Sinologist

19
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Clásico Borges what was something else tsui pen was

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Ajedrecista

20
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Yu Tsun describes his ancestors drafts as

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Insensata

21
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Nobody thought that the book and labyrinth were one

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Nadie pensó que libro y laberinto eran un solo objeto

22
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1001 nights el jardín.

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En el centro de las 1001 noches, cuando la reina Shahrazad (por una mágica distracción del copista) se pone a referir textualmente la historia de las 1001 noches, con riesgo de otra vez a la noche en que la refiere, y así hasta lo infinito

23
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What other story mentions 1001 nights

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El sur Dahlmann
Infects his nightmares
But eventually puts it down and starts living

24
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How does Yu Tsun describe the face of Albert

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Con algo inquebrantable y aún inmortal

25
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In tsui pens book how are the soldiers in the battle described

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Resignados a matar y morir

26
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What does Albert day about philosophy usurping tsui pens novel

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La controversia filosófica usurpa buena parte de su novela

Like borges ficciones

27
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Of all problems nothing so greatly disturbed him as

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De todos los problemas, ninguno lo inquietó y lo trabajó como el abismal problema del tiempo

28
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In a world who answer is chess what is the only prohibited word

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La palabra ajedrez

Según yu Tsun

29
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Chess questions applied to theme of chess in el jardín as in the manuscript of Sui pen

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Me consta que no emplea una sola vez la palabra tiempo

30
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Albert proposed tsui mainscript is an image of

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Una imagen incompleta, pero no falsaba, del universo

31
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He ( tsui) believed in aninfinite series of times

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Creía en infinitas series de tiempos

32
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Duality thing that Albert says, even tho they’re friends in this one

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En uno de ellos soy su enemigo

Schopenhauer
Slayer and slain borges quote

33
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How does el jardín end that is similar to la forma de la espada

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No sabe (nadie puede saber) mi innumerable contrición y cansancio