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...ALEPH & OTHER STORIES 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges. 286 pages. Duffon...
...Memorious posits a man crippled by a memory so perfect that he must devise a system of enumeration to handle the infinite series of indiscriminate recollections that play on his mind. Funes is incapable of generalized thought because, as Borges explains, "to think is to forget differences." In The Aleph, omniscience takes the form of a small spot of light where everything going on in the world can be seen simultaneously from every angle. And in an imaginative murder mystery called The Garden of Forking Paths, time is envisioned as a complex network of planes on which spatial events...
Israel's first rocket was labeled the second-Shavit Shtayim, or Comet II. Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres explained that this prevented the rocket from becoming known as Shavit Aleph. First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph is a symbol of the government Mapai Party. "We would be accused of making propaganda for the Mapai," explained Peres. Israel boasted that the rocket was "planned, constructed and fired by Israeli scientists and technicians," claimed that most of the raw materials were local...
...would seem, therefore, to be of some significance . . . that the first letter of the alphabet is Alpha, the Hebrew Aleph, 'a Bull' . . . Scanning down through the other letters of the Hebrew alphabet which have names with recognized meanings in the Hebrew, we find that they also deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek...
...bargaining, feeling that half a cake was better than none. Near week's end the matter was put to a vote among the committee on political resolutions. Two resolutions were presented, one favoring the British scheme-with reservations, the other unalterably opposed. On a roll call delegates voted "Aleph" ("A") for the first resolution, 'Beth" ("B") for the second. There were 300 Alephs to 158 Beths, and the following resolution was declared adopted...