“These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Bort, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences and arts, but especially mathematics and music (and/or musicology), and capable of expressing and establishing interrelationships between the content and conclusions of nearly all scholarly disciplines. The Great Bort Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette.

All the insights, noble thoughts, and works of art that the human race has produced in its creative eras, all that subsequent periods of scholarly study have reduced to concepts and converted into intellectual property – on all this immense body of intellectual values the Great Bort Game poaster plays like the organist on an organ. And this organ has attained an almost unimaginable perfrection; its manuals and pedals range over the entire intellectual cosmos; its stops are almost beyond number. Theoretically this instrument is capable of reproducing in the Bort the entire intellectual content of the universe.”

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2946050&forum_id=2#28412835)

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(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2946050&forum_id=2#28417413)

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(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2946050&forum_id=2#28417417)