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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Illusion of Infinity

"BOR" opens with the idea that there are an infinite number of points in a line and lines in a plane, etc. "For me is part of the craziness of what this story is going to lead us into," he says. The contemplation of infinity 'makes everything else start to become distorted and unreal'

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