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Collected Fictions[0] is a wonderful group of Borges stories that includes the ones mentioned in this article.

There are some amazing short story collections out there if you are the kind of reader that has a hard time staying with an entire novel. Ted Chiang has a couple[1][2] collections of stories that feel very Borges-like.

[0] https://www.librarything.com/work/25106 [1] https://www.librarything.com/work/28008 [2] https://www.librarything.com/work/23195758

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Thanks, I will probably read that collection. Nice to see it includes the stories The Zahir and The Book of Sand which feel just as relevant as the ones mentioned in the paper.

It has been a long time since I read Borges, but I vaguely remember a story about a man about to die by firing squad, who pauses time and lives in an eternal moment by looking at a bee or something? I'm probably way off, but I really liked it.

My favourite Ted Chiang story is the Tower of Babel story, what a rich world and satisfying pay-off.

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