Borges: The Immortal

There are writers you read to learn a story. Then there are writers you read to unlearn time.

Jorge Luis Borges belongs to the latter — a blind librarian who saw infinity in a chessboard, a man who wrote essays disguised as fiction and fiction disguised as footnotes. But more than anything, Borges wrote about immortality — not as a blessing, but as a beautiful, terrifying labyrinth. the immortal borges

To be immortal is to be bored of every sunrise. To forget your mother’s voice. To watch cities crumble into sand and feel nothing. There are writers you read to learn a story

Borges understood what Hollywood action films never will: Immortality is not superhuman. It is subhuman. but as a beautiful