News at Eleven: [Jorge Luis Borges] testified that he was haunted

from early childhood by three nightmares: the mirror, the mask and the labyrinth. He writes in "Mirrors," also translated by Reid, of the anxieties of proliferation that such reflections produce:

I look on them as infinite, elemental
fulfillers of a very ancient pact
to multiply the world, as in the act
of generation, sleepless and dangerous.

from The Nation: Mirror, Mask, Labyrinth

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