Jorge Luis Borges has very unique sense of style when it came to his writings. They were “halfway houses between essay and a story” says Adolfo Bioy Casares. Borges had an infinite imagination when it came to the topics like detective and the use of labyrinths. Labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way which is also a maze. I think it is important in Borges stories because he likes the complex intellectual landscapes that makes a reader think about what is happening in a story. In Babilonia, men made the labyrinth and in Arabia the labyrinth was made by God which was the desert. In Babilonia the labyrinth was a scandal because confusion and wonder are operations of God and not of men. The Arabian king went in the Babilonia’s labyrinth and couldn't get out but then prayed to God which helped him find the door and get out of the labyrinth. The king of Arabia got revenge on the king of Babilonia and tied him to a camel and traveled for three days then untied him and left in the middle of the desert where he died of hunger and thirst.
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