Jorge Luis Borges in 'The Garden of Forking Paths' imagines a novel as 'a labyrinth of labyrinths,' whose complexity verges on the Infinite, encompassing the entirety of the Universe itself in 'an invisible labyrinth of time.' Each path through such a novel branches off into 'diverse futures,' all concurrent with each other in multiple, but parallel, worlds.

'The Garden of Forking Paths — Monochrome' by Christian Bök imagines one possibility for such a tale by Jorge Luis Borges. Citing the English version (written by Donald A. Yates), Christian Bök has translated the story into an animated sequence of mazes, parsing the text into segments (200 characters in length), then converting each segment into an HRQR code: each one, a work of nearly asemic, visual poetry, decodable by an automated, robot viewer, if not by a diligent, human reader. Each letter in the text thus becomes a partition in, what Borges might deem, 'a labyrinth of symbols,' forking into multiple pathways.