The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise

The paradox of Zeno of Elea, as James indicated, is an attempt upon not only the reality of space but the more invulnerable and sheer reality of time.
Zeno is incontestable, unless we admit the ideality of space and time. If we accept idealism, if we accept the concrete growth of the perceived, then we shall elude the mise en abime of the paradox. Would this bit of Greek obscurity affect our concept of the universe? - my reader will ask.

A Defense of Basilides the False

In this melodrama or serial, the creation of the world is a mere aside. An admirable idea: the world imagined as an essentially futile process, like a sideways, lost glimpse of ancient celestial episodes. Creation as a chance act.

An Overwhelming Film

At the end we realize that the fragments are not governed by any secret unity: the detested Charles Foster Kane is a simulacrum, a chaos of appearances. (A possible corollary, foreseen by David Hume, Ernst Mach, and our own Macedonio Fernandez: no man knows who he is, no man is anyone.) In a sotry by Chesterton - The Head of Caesar, I think - the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center. This film is precisely that labyrinth.