"I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism.
Macedoni.
To not imitate this canon would have represented incredible negligence."--Jorge Luis Borges The Museum of Eterna\'s Novel (the First Good Novel) is the very definition of a Novel written ahead of its time.
Whoever preceded him might shine in history, but they were all rough drafts of Macedonio, imperfect previous versions.
I felt: Macedonio is metaphysics, is literature. "I imitated him, to the point of transcription, to the point of devoted and impassioned plagiarism