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Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Scott Sumner loved it
I was most influenced by the essays in the book, and I ended up being attracted to the same sort of writers as Borges, mostly Anglo-American writers of 1820-1920.

on econlib.org · 25 Dec 2019

This book on rcmnd →

That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.