'Labyrinths' & 'Ficciones'

Got scared after reading Ficciones and starting Labyrinths and thinking I'd already read the first story, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In fact, I had. Labyrinths was just a collection of stories and essays published in Ficciones and Jorge Luis Borges' El Aleph. 

And "scared" because Borges is not the easiest of reads in the world. He writes fiction like nonfiction and it's hard -- in the shorter format of an essay -- to differentiate between the two. 

Borges was an interesting guy having been brought up in an highly educated household: Bilingual, reading Shakespeare at a young age, studying the philosophy in German as a teenager. 

By the time he was publishing his essays like Ficciones he had gone blind and captured international renown on lecture tours. He was anti-Communist and anti-Fascist. A native Argentinian, he was anti-Peron. Basically, he thought the people should rule and none of those political systems paid much attention to the people and more so on the ruler. 

He referred to the Falkland War as "a fight between two bald men over a comb."  

Clever guy.