Jorge Luis Borges

I'm reading, for my final project, some short stories by Borges, and I really appreciate some of the connections that I've seen with his writing and some of the older works that we've read. His story, The Aleph, really captures the idea of an entirely ineffable universe beyond human understanding, as many poets have talked about. In the story, the narrator comes across a point in space from which one can see everything in the universe simultaneously. He describes the resulting experience as totally inexplicable and is unable to translate it into literary form. He compares it to a Persian Diety, an Avian god who is somehow all birds. The thought makes no logical sense, but appeals to a greater sense of intrigue, which I found really interesting. Borges also makes fantastic use of diction in this story, really stretching language to its limits. One of the main characters of the story is a pretentious poet whose use of excessively complicated or archaic word choices express his desire to define a universe which is simply unable to be expressed by the English; or even human language. We came across that a lot, oui?