I put away Jorge Luis Borges many years ago when I wrote my Literature thesis as an undergrad. Tonight I returned to him and read Death and the Compass:
“It’s possible, but not interesting,” Lönnrot answered. “You will reply that reality hasn’t the slightest need to be of interest. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypothesis may not . . .”
They have made a better than mediocre movie based on this story. It has some serious problems but in the beginning of the movie there is this blind(!) police detective called Borges who gets killed by Lönnrot in a rather humiliating way…
By the way your comment block is crazy, it extends indefinitely to the right as I type the comment! I am using IExplorer right now.