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Through his fiction writings Borges explores unabsolutes and by doing so, he rejects and challenges many traditional conventions that we are dependent upon. Most obvious is the fact that he denies time, or at least in the manner that we know it. Borges sees an occurence as one of many possiblities and not an absolute. He does not focus on the outcome or the destination, but rather the existence of the experiences. This discovery of possiblities leads to further discovery therefore always making an end a beginning - a cyclic, inifintive perspective. Borges likely endorses such concepts of endlessness as a way to open the mind to another realm, a realm that can be regarded as his personal reaction to existence, and a brilliant, enlightening one at that, which he has developed into a sort of philosophy that is riddled throughout many of his works.

What is the purpose or intention of such abstract, limitless thought? Is it an attempt to control or a rejection of an attempt at control? Does the portrayal of simultaneous existence reveal that we are at the mercy of fate, than anything is possible at any given moment? Is Borges implicating a higher power, or higher force, uncontrolled, uncoordinated an most definitely not existing in a linear fashion.

In "Borges and I" and several other of his self-reflective works Borges himself has often referred to his own coexistence, a split self, a struggle between simultaneous egos.

 

Jorges Borges, an unconfined man, challenges reality by exploring things that are the opposite or are contrary to what we are used to accepting and creating literature of excessive depth and infinitive possiblities.