Status Updates From Ficciones

Astonishing that so much of our cultural interests are prefigured in Borges' short stories, and that he handles them with so much more wit, creativity, and depth. I have a new favorite short story each time I reread this collection - last time it was Death and the Compass: "'The next time I kill you,' said Scharlach, 'I promise you the labyrinth made of the single straight line which is invisible and everlasting.'"