“Under the notable influence of Chesterton (contriver and embellisher of elegant mysteries) and the palace counsellor Leibniz (inventor of the pre-established harmony), in my idle afternoons I have imagined this story plot which I shall perhaps write some day and which already justifies me somehow. Details, rectifications, adjustments are lacking; there are zones of the story not yet revealed to me…”

Jorge Luis Borges, Theme of the Traitor and the Hero