In the Summa theologica, it is denied that God can unmake the past, but nothing is said of the complicated concatenation of causes & effects which is so vast and so intimate that perhaps it might prove impossible to annul a single remote fact, insignificant as it may seem, without invalidating the present. To modify the past is not to modify a single fact; it is to annul the consequences of that fact, which tends to be infinite. In other words, it involves the creation of two separate universal histories…As for myself, I do not think that I am running a similar risk. I have guessed at and set down a process beyond mans understanding, a kind of exposure of reason; but there are certain circumstances that lessen the dangers of this privilege of mine. For the present, I am not sure of having always written the truth. - Jorge Luis Borges, The Other Death.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:00:56 +0000
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