'In the wide realm of the world
there are ancient forms,
incorruptible and eternal forms —
any one of them might be
the symbol that I sought."
— "The Writing of the God," by Jorge Luis Borges
"The governor showed him a cell
whose floor, walls, and vaulted ceiling
were covered by a drawing (in barbaric colors
that time, before obliterating, had refined)
of an infinite tiger. It was a tiger composed of
many tigers, in the most dizzying of ways;
it was crisscrossed with tigers, striped with tigers,
and contained seas and Himalayas and armies
that resembled other tigers."
— "The Zahir," by Jorge Luis Borges
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