my life in the circular ruins

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries... Like all men of the Library, I have travelled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book..."

- Jorge Luis Borges, from The Library of Babel

here's a LitKicks essay on Borges ficciones. And a great view of writing:

"I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

- from the introduction to The Book of Sand