(urth) The Trailer of Ink

[Adam Thornton]

On Jan 31, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

> 
> Severian's phrase doesn't include the key idea - the endlessness of
> writings. (Or at least, in a rather indirect way, with 'unslakeable'.)
> 
> I would look instead to Ecclesiastes. It is one of the wisdom books of
> the Bible, without doubt read several times by Wolfe, and internally
> attributed to a wise man. We read in one translation:

I'd also comb through Borges.

Adam