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About the idea of imagining the worst possible futures to keep them from happening and then fearing that they will, I've always read that part as having ironic intent. Borges exposes Hladík's most intimate fears to ridicule; one can almost imagine him smiling and rolling his eyes at that passage. But still he shows understanding, possibly because he himself has thought like that more than once (and knows many of us readers have, too).
_First!_ Thanks for these ... they shall be my guide when I (finally!) get his _Collected Fiction . . ._ (William Gaddis does similar things w his references etc.) Being a published author _is_ a way of maintaining immortality! *Einstein's 'twins paradox' I think Una's referencing: the Special Relativity of Time?*
I should stop planning...but that in itself is a plan. I failed. I will try again tomorrow...wait. No! I wont! Help, I am stuck! Borges is the best fiction author for the idealist. The short stories of Hemingway are the anti-Borges haha. 😅
The discussion about planning / creating the future reminded me of this: *Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance.*
