''Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.'
- Francis Bacon, Essays, LVIII
The Immortal is a short story written by Jorge Luis Borges published in the Anales de Buenos Aires newspaper in 1947, then republished in The Aleph in 1949.
Tropes:
- Shout-Out:
- Before Marcus Flaminius Rufus lose himself in his sleep, he inexplicably starts saying "Those from Zeleia, wealthy Trojans, who drink the water of dark Aisepos…". Marcus is roughly paraphrasing book 2 (824) of The Iliad, "And they that dwelt in Zeleia beneath the nethermost foot of Ida, men of wealth, that drink the dark water of Aesepus, even the Troes, these again were led by the glorious son of Lycaon, Pandarus, to whom Apollo himself gave the bow."
