Wait a minute…
What if you converted every three digits of Pi to a 10-bit number, concatenated them and interpreted them as #ascii (or something like #base64
That means that Pi is hiding the U.S.' nuclear launch codes. The truth behind the JFK assassination, the cure to cancer…
GUYS... we were learning #Borges' #LibraryOfBabylon in middle school as #Pi! It was all hiding under our noses all along!
On #Bluesky, a few months ago, #XKCD author Randall Munroe wrote a long story about the "Case of the Missing Hit", a song with the chorus "#LOL" with specific lyrics and style aspects, which other people seem to have also heard - yet the song doesn't seem to exist.
“I remember the first novel in English I read through was a Scottish novel called The House with the Green Shutters. […] When I read that, I wanted to be Scotch.”
—Jorge Luis Borges, interviewed by the Paris Review in July 1966
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world.
"Of all the games, I prefer the one about the other [me]. I pretend that he comes to visit me and that I show him my house.... With great obeisance I [speak] to him.... Sometimes I make a mistake, and the two of us laugh heartily."
"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity.... The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."
@litstudies
Was Boswell just an idiot who had the good fortune to meet Johnson and write his biography? Or is this “Samuel Johnson” actually a brilliant dramatic character created by Boswell?