" As Borges himself showed us in so many stories — " The Aleph" , " The Garden of Forking Paths" , " The Gift" , " Blue Tigers" , " Shakespeare's Memory" — a blessing is always a mixed blessing.As Borges noted sadly, he inherited a library, and blindness; we who study Borges inherit great sight, yet the rest of the library somehow fades.(pg 303, " What I Lost When I Translated Jorge Luis Borges" ) "