That was a long way to go to get to a Ficciones reference. The Pierre Menard's Don Quixote and the Library of Babel are probably my favorite Borges stories, and

That was a long way to go to get to a Ficciones reference. The Pierre Menard's Don Quixote and the Library of Babel are probably my favorite Borges stories, and I do think they're applicable to the author's point. I just can't help but feel that it was a painful process to get there.