Netlogo


 * NetLogo**

//Every language is an alphaet of symbols the employment of which assues a past shared by its interlocutors. How can one transmit to others the infinite Aleph, which my timorous memory can scarcely contain? In a similar situation, mystics have employed a wealth of emblems: to signify the deity, a Persian mystic speaks of a bird that somehow is all birds; Alain de Lille speaks of a sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere; Ezekiel, of an angel with four faces, facing east and west, north and south at once. (It is not for nothig that I call to mind these inconceivable analogies; they bear a relation to the Aleph.) Perhaps the gods would not deny me the discovery of an equivalent image, but then this report would be polluted with literature, with falseness. And besides, the central problem-the enumeration, even partial enumeration, of infinity-is irresolvable. In that unbounded moment, I saw millions of delightful and horrible acts; none amazed me so much as the fact that all occupied the same point, without superposition and without transparency. What my eyes saw was// simultaneous//, what I shall write is// successive//, because language is successive. Something of it, though, I will capture.// [__The Aleph and Other Stories__, "The Aleph", Jorge Luis Borges, (1949), pg. 129]