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Ficciones
Perfect if you want to feel clever, confused, and cosmically small—all at once.
Synopsis
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met…”
Ficciones isn’t a book. It’s a maze of ideas dressed as fiction. This collection contains some of Borges’ most iconic works: “The Library of Babel,” “The Garden of Forking Paths,” “The Lottery in Babylon,” and others that feel like intellectual spells disguised as short fiction.
Mood:
philosophical · enigmatic · recursive
Tone:
cerebral · sly · precise
It Feels Like
Body:
felt in the mind, the margins, and the metaphysical abyss behind your eyelids
Tempo:
steady, spiralled
Texture:
smooth, mathematical, glinting with paradox
A Little Taste
“I have known that thing the Greeks did not know — uncertainty. I have known the unknown. And it is in that infinite labyrinth that I lose myself, forever.”
“I felt what a man might feel on awakening from a dream — not a nightmare, but a dream of perfect lucidity, a dream in which every object and every act is a symbol of another object and another act, and so on to infinity.”
The Aftertaste
The strangeness of ideas that feel more real than people
A spiral of mirrors, dreams, and philosophical traps
The uncanny thrill of realizing you’ve read yourself into a corner—and you like it
Peel With a Drink
Read it With A deep, dry Tempranillo—aged in oak and silence. Dark plum, old leather, the scent of distant ash. The kind of wine you swirl slowly while whispering logic puzzles to the void. This isn’t a drink—it’s a labyrinth you sip. It pairs best with candlelight, footnotes, and the hum of your own brain looping on itself.
Perfect for the moment you realise: You are being read. The wine is the mirror. And Borges… is both the glass and the hand that poured it.
Peel With a Reel
The Double Life of Veronique (1991, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski) Move through mirrored lives in a film about intuition, doubling, and the mysteries of being.
Sans Soleil (1983, dir. Chris Marker) A philosophical travelogue that folds time, memory, and image into a Borgesian meditation on reality and the stories we tell ourselves.
Peel with a Beat
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Olga Tokaruczuk
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Let's Peel
Ficciones
Perfect if you want to feel clever, confused, and cosmically small—all at once.
Synopsis
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met…”
Ficciones isn’t a book. It’s a maze of ideas dressed as fiction. This collection contains some of Borges’ most iconic works: “The Library of Babel,” “The Garden of Forking Paths,” “The Lottery in Babylon,” and others that feel like intellectual spells disguised as short fiction.
Mood:
philosophical · enigmatic · recursive
Tone:
cerebral · sly · precise
It Feels Like
Body:
felt in the mind, the margins, and the metaphysical abyss behind your eyelids
Tempo:
steady, spiralled
Texture:
smooth, mathematical, glinting with paradox
A Little Taste
“I have known that thing the Greeks did not know — uncertainty. I have known the unknown. And it is in that infinite labyrinth that I lose myself, forever.”
“I felt what a man might feel on awakening from a dream — not a nightmare, but a dream of perfect lucidity, a dream in which every object and every act is a symbol of another object and another act, and so on to infinity.”
The Aftertaste
The strangeness of ideas that feel more real than people
A spiral of mirrors, dreams, and philosophical traps
The uncanny thrill of realizing you’ve read yourself into a corner—and you like it
Peel With a Drink
Read it With A deep, dry Tempranillo—aged in oak and silence. Dark plum, old leather, the scent of distant ash. The kind of wine you swirl slowly while whispering logic puzzles to the void. This isn’t a drink—it’s a labyrinth you sip. It pairs best with candlelight, footnotes, and the hum of your own brain looping on itself.
Perfect for the moment you realise: You are being read. The wine is the mirror. And Borges… is both the glass and the hand that poured it.
Peel With a Reel
The Double Life of Veronique (1991, dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski) Move through mirrored lives in a film about intuition, doubling, and the mysteries of being.
Sans Soleil (1983, dir. Chris Marker) A philosophical travelogue that folds time, memory, and image into a Borgesian meditation on reality and the stories we tell ourselves.