* HilariousInHindsight: Creating an entire fictional world (or country) with hundreds of years of culture, language and history? Borges' fiction in the 1940s: a project so vast only an AncientConspiracy with hundreds of years' worth of time can undertake it, which, upon being revealed causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Reality in the 2010s: [[{{Worldbuilding}} something any geek with a word processor can do.]]
** Made even more hilarious when it is considered that when the story was written and published, [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien]] had already spent 30 years creating the fictional world of [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Middle-Earth]], widely considered one of the most fleshed-out fictional universes in literature. It was written by one man in approximately 60 years, far from the centuries-spanning endeavor that Tlön required.