Borges and the garden of forking paths

damascus street scene I remembered too that night which is at the middle of the Thousand and One Nights when Scheherazade (through a magical oversight of the copyist) begins to relate word for word the story of the Thousand and One Nights, establishing the risk of coming once again to the night when she must repeat it, and thus to infinity. -Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths