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Hey. I would certainly second what you are saying about his brevity. Nor is it the slightly choppy style of brevity you can get with some writers; he displays a remarkable elegance of both thought and expression in everything he writes.
I was recently reading a couple of very brief essays on the Welsh supernatural writer Arthur Machen that he wrote, unfortunately untranslated. The economy really is marvellous and looks so simple, when it is far from it.
As for Tlon, a remarkable story innit! The only thing I would add is that I think it can be a slight deception to go down the philosophical or abstract route when reading Borges. I'm reminded of what he said in another of his stories, it must be one of his library ones, where he said that the library is not infinite although it appears to be and conjecture on the matter can be misleading.
The philosophy is part of the aesthetic and is not the essential meaning.
I'm reminded slightly of the Father Brown stories, of which Borges was a great admirer, where the horrific mystery, which helps provide so much of the atmosphere fear and menace is eventually shown to be merely a way of looking at the world (in Father Brown's Catholic viewpoint, a mistaken way of looking at the world which he 'solves').
So it is that Borges' stories strike me as graceful deceptions, where the forking paths of the realities and philosophies are like the intricacies of the first letter of an illuminated manuscript.
To give an example - What is left for me, say, from the story of Funes the Memorius (sorry to switch stories, but I haven't got the book to hand as I'm at work) is the image of a child running along the sunlit top of a wall, and his adult self in blind darkness rather than theoretical explorations of memory - although that is very much part of the fun as well!
Short story writer VS Pritchett wrote a marvellous essay on this side of Borges, collected in a book on South American writers - I'll see if I can dig it out.
Tom