In what ways does the story relate to the idea of "the radical" as we discussed in class?
This story is radical because the idea of the Aleph is very radical. It's an impossible thing. A wonderful thing to try to imagine, but impossible. The story made me think very much of some sort of twilight zone episode. It was very interesting to read and would be even more interesting to see something try to depict the Aleph in a physical form of art.
How does the story inform or change your understanding of time?
This story doesn't really change what I think time is, but it seems to depict time as a sort of jumble of moments happening everywhere all at once. So much happens in a few seconds, it just doesn't seem that way because we can only experience our own few seconds, not the few seconds that everyone in the entire world experiences.
