High Quality | The Immortal Borges

To read Borges is to enter a hall of mirrors. You think you’re reading about a Chinese emperor’s map, or a library of hexagonal rooms, or a man who dreams another man — but really, you’re reading about reading. About the shimmering impossibility of a final page.

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. the immortal borges

Borges understood what Hollywood action films never will: Immortality is not superhuman. It is subhuman. To read Borges is to enter a hall of mirrors

We are all immortals — just backward.

So here is the secret Borges leaves us:

And yet — Borges himself is immortal.

— For JLB, who is still dreaming us. Would you like a shorter version for Twitter/X or a Spanish translation of this post? To be immortal is to be bored of every sunrise