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Theme of the traitor and the hero:
… a falsehood wrapped in a falsehood wrapped in a falsehood wrapped in a falsehood.

It may be time to take a little break and read something narrative.

Funes the Memorious:
To notice something is to exclude focus on the other. To notice everything is to notice nothing.

From Wikipedia: In the introduction to…The Garden of Forking Paths, Borges remarks, "It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books, setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them."

Pierre Menard: “We have the Quixote at home.”

Garden of Forking Paths:
Borges posits a primitive version of that mainstay that of preteen literature: the choose-your-own-adventure story.

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius:
Opaque. Impenetrable. Utterly resistant to interpretation.