Going Under

Via The Boat Lullabies

 

"In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do so many Englishmen; dead, he is not even the ghostly creature he was then." 

— Jorge Luis Borges, from "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" Ficciones

In all candor, I can't say I understand this story, but the language sticks with me like elegant morsels I want to taste again and again, while the ideas waft up to me like fragrant illusions of something mysterious and elemental.