pierre menard who wanted to write don quixote, but not to copy it.anted to achieve it the exact same text word for word through his own experience in 20th century argentina. i think it was set in argentina, but i'm not entirely sure. and that was a story that took the form of a literary monograph, you know, so.and what i loved about borges was that he was an incredible poet and incredible writer and incredible thinker and yet also very funny. like he was playing games and he was doing literature, and this is why the literary theorists loved him, because he was doing literature that made you think about what a story was and he was. and he was building little puzzle boxes for you to figure out. and i loved the fact that literature could be playful and to me, he was really my hero, and what i also loved about him was that he never wrote a novel, because i knew i was never going to do that either because i'm lazy. you know, all of my ideas would only, that i have for any kind of writing that i would do, lasted maybe you know, from a couple hundred to a f