1. Metaphysical Time in Jorge Luis Borge's "Garden of Forking P
... continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future 2: the point or period when something occurs ... the devil to achieve happiness from life beyond his studies. The devil, Mephistopheles, promises to amuse Faust to the point where Faust becomes bored with amusement, at which time Faust becomes Mephistopheles" servant. The literary use of metaphysical time is not evident to the untrained reader. In order to truly see the use of time, one must first understand that Goethe joined the ... play a key part in defining the use of metaphys...
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