Labyrinth with no Walls

Labyrinth-

1.

an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or to reach the exit. Synonyms: maze, network, web.

2.

a maze of paths bordered by high hedges, as in a park or garden, for the amusement of those who search for a way out.

3.

a complicated or tortuous arrangement, as of streets or buildings. Synonyms: warren, maze, jungle, snarl, tangle, knot.

4.

any confusingly intricate state of things or events; a bewildering complex: His papers were lost in an hellish bureaucratic labyrinth. After the death of her daughter, she wandered in a labyrinth of sorrow for what seemed like a decade. Synonyms: wilderness, jungle, forest; morass.

5. ( initial capital letter ) Classical Mythology . a vast maze built in Crete by Daedalus, at the command of King Minos, to house the Minotaur

Jorge Luis Borges -(1899 – 1986) an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. His work embraces the "character of unreality in all literature".^[1] His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and The Aleph (El Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
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Please read the short story by Borges entitled "Circular Ruins" and "The Library of Babel". Click here to go to the PDF. The story begins on page 214 and 251 respectively. Please compose a short written response to the story considering the concept of a labyrinths (and the numerous forms of a labyrinth in the story).

In addition, consider the story of King Sisyphus from "The Odyssey". As Odysseus enters Hades to consult the blind prophet Tiresius, the first tormented soul he encounters is Sisyphus, punished by the gods for repeatedly tricking them and escaping death/ Hades.

“And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands. With hands and feet he' tried to roll it up to the top of the hill, but always, just before he could roll it over on to the other side, its weight would be too much for him, and the pitiless stone would come thundering down again on to the plain” (Homer).