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Anonymous Tue Dec 8 20:53:06 2015 No.7440000 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books about purgatory-like worlds?
Infinitely vast and empty planes, complex labyrinths with no exits or ends, rooms where leaving through the back door will only take you back in through the front door, things of this nature.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 20:54:50 2015 No.7440008 >>7440000 nice quads. start with the borges

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 21:02:09 2015 No.7440036 >>7440008 I'm so angry, my library system, the entire fucking system serving millions of people, has essays on borges but none of his godamn books.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 21:11:52 2015 No.7440078 >>7440036 At least this site has them. https://sites.google.com/site/thebooksofsand/home

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 8 21:14:19 2015 No.7440093 >>7440000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_mirror_in_the_mirror

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 00:07:12 2015 No.7440761 >>7440036 btdigg, bookzz... cmon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 00:11:15 2015 No.7440784 >ready to get spooked? there were once two men.... and yet, in the eyes of God, they were the Same Man. >like it? buy my short story collection, 20 Versions of The Same Thing

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 00:12:42 2015 No.7440790 >>7440761 Some people like the feel of actual books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 00:14:22 2015 No.7440795 Anything by Beckett. Some may argue that his characters are in some sort of hell, but that is un to you to decide.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 00:20:15 2015 No.7440823 >>7440000 good numbers. the road's kind of like that but not really since there's a road and all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 00:23:22 2015 No.7440836 >>7440036 my library system is nothing but alphabetical characters arranged at random in infinite permutations. some say if you look deep enough into it you'll find the word of GOD, but to be honest it's kind of a pain in the ass.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 08:22:17 2015 No.7441755 >>7440790 I prefer the reading of actual books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 08:23:38 2015 No.7441757 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 08:31:07 2015 No.7441770 File: 362 KB, 728x533, 02_JORGE_LUIS_BORGES_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7440036 that's actually hilarious >>7440000 Beckett: Le Depeupleur / The Lost Ones especially O'Brien, The Third Policeman

Anonymous Wed Dec 9 08:36:36 2015 No.7441777
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>>7440000
I'm interested in this question too. I read a great (albeit genre-fiction) book called Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell a few years ago that featured precisely this, it would be nice to see some literary-fiction interpretations.

Hard to take that pic seriously when the actual castle is in Brittany.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 9 08:42:30 2015 No.7441788 >>7441777 They tore down that old labyrinth years ago, said it was mucking up the view.

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