“Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.”

—  Jorge Luis Borges

The Garden of Forking Paths (1942), The Garden of Forking Paths
Context: Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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