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The most shocking part of the story comes after the revelation. Borges (the character) does not ascend from the basement enlightened. He ascends jealous . He realizes that Daneri—the fool, the bad poet—has had access to the Aleph for years and used it only to write a terrible, tedious, descriptive poem.
That is the curse and the gift of the Aleph. It is the point where eternity meets a dirty floor, and where the universe becomes, for one vertiginous second, smaller than an inch.
The narrator realizes the dark truth:
The most shocking part of the story comes after the revelation. Borges (the character) does not ascend from the basement enlightened. He ascends jealous . He realizes that Daneri—the fool, the bad poet—has had access to the Aleph for years and used it only to write a terrible, tedious, descriptive poem.
That is the curse and the gift of the Aleph. It is the point where eternity meets a dirty floor, and where the universe becomes, for one vertiginous second, smaller than an inch.
The narrator realizes the dark truth:
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