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Borges & the Labyrinth of Mirrors w/ Aldous Asterion

Art of Darkness

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The Unrequited Love of Borges

The protagonist of this story is essentially Borges. He has one of these unrequited love, this obsession with a woman named Beatrice Beatrice Viterbo. She's probably more of an ideal than a human being. And the bulk of the story really has to do with this. An acquaintance who is a cousin of Beatrice that he winds up hanging out with because it's the only way to be kind of close to her in some sense.

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