Borges blew my brain first when I was 18. To this day I re-read at least "The Library of Babel" once a year. Still in awe of how his mind worked.
Q: If you had a chance to meet the author of your favorite book, who would it be and what would you ask them?
A: Jorge Luis Borges. "How is this possible?"
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"If in the following pages there is some successful verse or other, may the reader forgive me the audacity of having written it before him. We are all one; our inconsequential minds are much alike, and circumstances so influence us that it is something of an accident that you are the reader and I the writer"
I think its the from the foreword of "Ficciones". Found it here again: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68427/it-is-someth...
I do the same thing. It’s my most favourite story I’ve ever read. Endless in depth.
Oh, and of course somebody made a website https://libraryofbabel.info/
Nitpick: the normality of pi (that every possible number is "in there") is still a conjecture. It does seem true though (from a layman's perspective).