J. L. Borges
n“Things duplicate
themselves on [the imaginary planet of] Tlön; they also tend to grow vague or ‘sketchy,’ and to lose
detail when they
begin to be forgotten. The classic example is the doorway that continued to exist so long as a certain beggar
frequented it, but
which was lost to sight when he died. Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved
the ruins of an
amphitheater.”
q“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (Collected Fictions)