{"id":123,"date":"2013-03-11T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/the-aleph-twitter-and-gutenberg-mashup-tribute-to-jorge-luis-borges\/"},"modified":"2013-03-11T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:58:00","slug":"the-aleph-twitter-and-gutenberg-mashup-tribute-to-jorge-luis-borges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/11\/the-aleph-twitter-and-gutenberg-mashup-tribute-to-jorge-luis-borges\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aleph: Twitter and Gutenberg mashup tribute to Jorge Luis Borges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Effing brilliant. -egg]<br \/>\u00a0&#8211; &#8211;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/tRd9FUyOLfI\/the-aleph.html\">The Aleph: Twitter and Gutenberg mashup tribute to Jorge Luis Borges<\/a>: A neat project by David Hirmes: <a href=\"http:\/\/hirmes.com\/aleph\/\">The Aleph: Infinite Wonder \/ Infinite Pity<\/a>. Sentences from Project Gutenberg and Twitter that start with two words: &#8220;I saw&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>You can view only Gutenberg, or only Twitter, or mush them both to produce beautiful word salad like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I saw wild hands upcast to the gloom above, a shrunken, pallid face, the gleam of snow-white hair. I saw and smelt that they used real powder. I saw the horrible glare of her eyes, but I could not see so much of her as I wished, and I said that I would call again in the morning. I saw her first five years ago at Gerard&#8217;s; she came from Switzerland, where she had taken refuge. I saw him the other night, and from what he said, and what she says, I can see pretty well how things are going. I saw a picture of @AmalJamal_ on prom night. lol.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phinnweb.org\/links\/literature\/borges\/aleph.html\">The Aleph<\/a> is a short story by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jorge_Luis_Borges\">Jorge Luis Borges<\/a> in which a man is suddenly able to see all things at once. The website&#8217;s creator David Hirmes explains:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wanted to present a version of what The Aleph might look like now, designed as an endless stream of descriptive passages pulled from the web. For source texts, I took the complete Project Gutenberg as well as current tweets. I searched for the phrase &#8220;I saw.&#8221;<br \/>The title of the piece is a reference to the narrator&#8217;s summing up of the vast whirring world he&#8217;s seen, one of &#8220;infinite wonder and infinite pity&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>(HT: @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samryan\/status\/310886142289510400\">samryan<\/a>)<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/tRd9FUyOLfI\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Effing brilliant. -egg]\u00a0&#8211; &#8211;The Aleph: Twitter and Gutenberg mashup tribute to Jorge Luis Borges: A neat project by David Hirmes: The Aleph: Infinite Wonder \/ Infinite Pity. Sentences from Project Gutenberg and Twitter that start with two words: &#8220;I saw&#8230;&#8221; You can view only Gutenberg, or only Twitter, or mush them both to produce beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}