This isn’t my usual genera - fiction/fantasy short story. I really enjoyed Borgues rich descriptions, though I admit the vocabulary sometimes lost me. There were only two stories I didn’t really like - On Exactitude in Science and Death and the Compass.

in On Exactitude I had no idea what was happening, seems like I need to be in a Lit class to break it down. And, in Death and the Compass I feel like our detective gets killed right when things get interesting.

I really liked The Book of Sand best, and also The Circular Ruins

I feel that Bourges was of posing reality and infinity to the reader is amazing and unexpected,

While short, this is a very inspiring and fascinating work. I can see it influencing me in the future. It felt as if I was given a short glimpse into a mans life before being shut out forever. Philosophically, the idea of the Garden is interesting, it is an interesting meditation of the nature of choices, on time itself. What does it mean to make a choice? Do the roads not taken still exist with us?