Reply #13: Jorge Luis Borges [View All]

Incredible creativity.

Care to read a story about a man who purposefully lived his life like Cervantes and became so much like the master that he independently wrote long sections of Don Quixote that were word-for-word identical to the original, but much better?

Or a story about a mapmaker who made a perfect map of a country and in order to do so had to make it the size of the country?

Or a story about a society completely controlled by a yearly lottery?

Or a story about an infinite library that contains all permutations of the letters of a particular alphabet and hence contains everything that could be said?

These and many more ideas came from the interesting mind of Borges.