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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Library of Babel

I think Borges is often returning to this theme, the theme of the infinite. And even if it doesn't yet contain every possible book, it might very well soon. There's something very uncanny about how technology and human beings today interact in ways that are borhazian. It's also deeply depressing to think that Borshiss saw the future and it was Facebook.

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