Hello, My Name is Borges

Hello, my name is Jorge Louis Borges.  You may remember me.  I spent 86 years searching for the infinite, little knowing, that the infinite spent the same number of years looking for me.  When we finally found each other, I ceased to remember a time when we were apart.

 

If you have ever tried to catch a star in a child’s butterfly net, then you know my predicament.  It is impossible to describe the infinite in words.  Indeed, words are like the butterfly net, catching nothing but the occasional metaphor. 

 

Yet I persist, knowing now, that certain of my previous works contain imperfections.  These imperfections are now set, like the rare impurity that adds color to certain diamonds.  I cannot remove them without destroying the work.

 

To continue along my former creative path is impossible.  Instead, I have decided to dedicate myself to literary criticism.