Martin Gendelman, composer, contributed this short story by Jorge Luis Borges to the creative process for Locus. The full story can be read here: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jatill/175/CircularRuins.htm
From Wikipedia: “The Circular Ruins” (original Spanish title: “Las ruinas circulares”) is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Published in Sur in December 1940, it was included in the 1941 collection The Garden of Forking Paths (El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan) and then in part one of the 1944 collection Ficciones. It was first translated into English in New Directions 11(1949).
The short story deals with themes recurring in Borges’s work: idealism, the manifestation of thoughts in the “real world”, meaningful dreams, and immortality. The manifestation of thoughts as objects in the real world was a theme in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius but here Borges takes it to another level: the manifestation of human beings rather than simple objects.
The story also seems to symbolize writers as creators who engender one another and whose existence and originality would be impossible without their predecessors, a theme he wrote about in other works such as Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, another short story from the Ficciones collection.
