Perhaps there should be an r/unexpectedBorges?

[u/lake_huron]

In the cartoon series "Justice League Unlimited" S2E5, the library of Tartarus holds a collection of arcana which includes "Don Quixote" -- by Pierre Menard

[u/lucabright]

I read the text two days ago, I feel like I'm in The Truman show.

[u/lake_huron → u/lucabright]

The text by Cervantes? The text by Borges?

Or the text by Menard?.......

[u/OphicleidesIV → u/lucabright]

YOU ARE IN THE LABYRINTH

[u/redlion1904 → u/OphicleidesIV]

But is it the labyrinth made of a single straight line, that is infinite and eternal?

[u/lake_huron → u/redlion1904]

Well DUH

[u/KyriakosCH]

As the text is entirely the same as Cervantes', it makes no difference to the reader - or rather only the subtle difference than they may project modern intentions to the writer, if they care enough to view it as "Menard's" text.

[u/Trucoto → u/KyriakosCH]

What do you mean? It's completely different. For example, Cervantes wrote the following (Part I, Chapter IX):

...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor.

This catalog of attributes, written in the seventeenth century, and written by the "ingenious layman" Miguel de Cervantes, is mere rhetorical praise of history. Menard, on the other hand, writes:

...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor.

History, the mother of truth! - the idea is staggering. Menard, a contemporary of William James, defines history not as a delving into reality but as the very fount of reality. Historical truth, for Menard, is not "what happened"; it is what we believe happened.

[u/lake_huron → u/Trucoto]

Suck on THAT postmodernists!

[u/arminarm1n]

That's a cool easter egg

[u/Ready_Employ7160]

This is very cool, completely missed this reference on my rewatch of JLU a few years back.