What's the most Borgesian thing that's ever happened to you, /lit/?
I have been every man, but not for many years.
>>7551867
I was reading a history book while in reality I was reading a book about myths.
I was in Argentina and pretended I didn't know Spanish. I only spoke English.
I once got lost in a library, thought it was endless.
I got drunk, lost my car keys and walked 5 miles to a friends house, knocked on his window and the fucker kept on sleeping bc he thought i was pranking him. Fell asleep underneath some shrubs
>>7551867
i took a bunch of shrooms
>>7551931
Nice
took acid, got raped by gay friend (i'm male), thought he was going to steal my body by transmitting his soul into mine leaving me a detached consciousness with no way to interact with anything for eternity, i would be just this disembodied floating point of thought, then almost commited suicide while i still had a body to do it with.
i've never read borges. true story though
>>7552800
That's not Borgesian, fag.
Men can't be raped, they have to want the dick.
>>7551931
Wow you a so random! Epic upvote from all us on 4chan!!
Once I went to what I thought was a supermarket but it turned out to be a mirror labyrinth quran library filled with knife-fighting gaucho tigers.
i once had a dream within a dream
>First dream in a Spanish hotel with some guys i used to be friends with, screw around abit then go to sleep
>Wake up in a new dream in my own bedroom as if it was real life, decide i dont want to be in this dream and kill myself by jumping out the window
>wake up back in the Spanish hotel dream
shit was dope, but whenever i tell people they get worried like i'll think im dreaming in real life and try to kill myself or some shit
i have ontologically terrifying dreams because they're indistinguishable from normal life and go on as long as normal days, except that when I fall asleep in the dream I wake up for reals and have to repeat the day all over again.
>>7551867
I got spooped reading a book in which the story was framed as academic research because I didn't know it was fiction
I got blind
I called Borges a pleb on /lit/ and then an infinite number of plebs got mad at me.
>>7552800
did he put his dick into your butthole? were you aware it was happening?
>>7551867
It's happening to me right now when reading this.
I dropped my copy of The Conversation with the Man Called Al-Mu'tasim: A Game of Shifting Mirrors while running through a garden
on the recomendation of a dear friend, although dear is stretched to it's minimum meaning and impact after this incident, I partook in a somewhat Dyonesian ritual. He offered me a small flat chalky pill the color of a Buenos Aires sunset violet. He said it would be in my best interest as a man of literature and the arts, although the word arts is stretched to it's most infinite meaning, to drink the small offering and chase it down with a viscous concoction the color of Buenos Aires sunrise purple. It has been several years since the occurrence but I can still remember the night I ended up at a crack house being raped by three mulatoes wielding arm length knives. Still dazed from the maelstromic infuzion of Argentinian skies (of which I am very fond of) I uttered- Dios mio estoy en Africa!- Alas, In a flurry of horrific subterranen horror the likes of Lovecraft's own creation I realized the very color of the binds I was tied with was a duet of white and teal with a blazing sun looking up at me. It was the Argentinian flag!
>>7551867
Became a fascist
>>7553101
i n c e p t i o n
>>7553890
yes. i believe, but not certain, that he slipped me some other drug... i was warm, great anxiety/confusion and body was sluggish (could barely move arms) but fully conscious.
I read a book as a young kid (Out of the Silent Planet) in foster care. It was a stressful time and I was reading a lot of whatever sci-fi and fantasy I could get my hands on.
Anyway, years pass and I go to college and a friend recommends this book to me. While reading it I have deja vu. I can't place it for a few days, and because the book is written by CS Lewis and has religious themes all up in it I thought I was having some kind of nervous breakdown or religious awakening. Turns out I had just forgotten I had read the book years earlier, when my comprehension was very very low.
so I guess just deja vu is my most Borgesian experience
Similar thing happened to me when my older sister's fiance gave me a binder full of excerpts from things Godel, Escher, Bach,...Borges, John C. Lily, PKD, and Infinite Jest as a freshman in highschool. 10 years later I read Infinite Jest and the deja vu was an uncomfortable feeling until I recognized it
>>7551867
Woke up from a labyrinthine dream in which I evaded knife wielding gauchos across the vista of Buenos Aires.
>>7551867
While reading it, having never heard of Borges, I decided throughout Pierre Menard to read the piece as if Borges had made up Menard's whole project and then even the man himself.
A girl hugged me and we are going to balet next week
>>7554397
jajaja
