In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. In the almost unfathomable Ts’ui Pen, he chooses – simultaneously – all of them. He thus creates various futures, various times which start others that will in their turn branch out and bifurcate in other times. This is the cause of the contradictions in the novel. – Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”Today was the first day of class and at one point I found myself trying to make two concepts coalesce for my students. I found it surprisingly Read more