#labyrinths

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Mazes and Labyrinths (1922) by W. H. Matthews

[prokopetz]

I know the unicursal (i.e., non-branching) labyrinth is a visual art thing and doesn't at all match the description of the mythological Labyrinth, but sometimes I picture some sort of ancient Greek SCP thing with very speedy stonemasons constantly lengthening the path in order to contain a very, very slow Minotaur.

[mervynbunter]

W. Somerset Maugham, Sheppey (1933)

(a good post on its likely trajectory from the Talmud to Maugham here)

[jareckiworld]

Galina Bitt — Labyrinth (gouache and lead white on black panel, 1968)

[dk-thrive]

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

— Jorge Luis Borges, A New Refutation of Time" in Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings. Edited and translated by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby. (New Directions, 1962)

[teratomat]

[thirdity]

It is true that I never leave my house, but it is also true that its doors (whose number is infinite) stand open night and day to men and also to animals. Anyone who wishes to enter may do so.

Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion"