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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Borsheis' Concept of What Is True and What Is Real

For Borsheis, the notion of what is true and what is real is never quite clear. The self is a fiction, but similarly, our relationship to the world around us is actually a mostly empty cloud with a few atoms scattered across it. So it seems to me that Bors he's bizarre, but also perhaps much more honest than the rest of us who insist on pretending things are real that actually aren't.

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