Status Updates From المرايا والمتاهات

I don't think I apprehended shit while reading tlon uqbar orbis tertius, though I extracted [personal] meaning. The idea that expectation brews anxiety and inhibition may seem self-evident, but when articulated and expounded upon in a literary sense, the adage becomes increasingly transparent.

Moreover, the short fiction explores an interesting series of contradictions (e.g., purposeful search is often fruitless).

Read Tlon, Uqbar, Orbus, Tertius as a bedtime story to someone and they were asleep by page 5. I would kill for the ability to be somebody in the 1940s perusing the short stories sections and stumbling on Borges haphazardly

First story was fantastic