"So long as this city endures, no one in the world can ever be happy or courageous," he writes. "It feels like an Escher maze that's more chaotic." The book is published by Simon & Schuster at $16.99.
David and Tamler wind their way through another Borges story - "The Immortal"- about a Roman soldier who seeks the secret of immortality and, much to his horror, finds it. Plus some thoughts on the utterly shameless ChatGPT.