The Garden of Forking Paths

First Chapter by Jorge Luis Borges, 1941

This certainly is an intriguing and morbid story. It is fascinating though that someone found a connection between this story and hypertext or even took the story as an inspiration.

I remember loving those stories as a child. For easter me and my siblings would each get an “old fashioned hypertext”, a book that gave you options, ‘if you want this to happen continue on page 5, if you want that to happen continue on page 10′

Hypertext also seems like an interesting class project. Each student could work on one path of the story.

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