Contents • • • • • Plot summary [ ] Zahir is a person or an object that has the power to create an in everyone who sees it, so that the affected person perceives less and less of and more and more of the Zahir, at first only while asleep, then at all times. In the story, a fictionalized version of Borges gets the Zahir in his change after paying for a drink in the form of a coin.

Zahir is an NPC in the world of Hexaria found at Cambris Town in Cambris Extern 01. His main purpose for being in the game, would be to transport players to.

Borges then tells the reader about a focused on famous coins throughout and, and the fact that a coin symbolizes our, since it can be turned into anything. These feverish thoughts keep him awake for a while. The next day, Borges decides to lose the coin. He goes to a faraway in, while he carefully avoids looking at the street names and numbers, and manages to get rid of the Zahir by paying for another drink in an anonymous bar.

The writer is unable to forget the coin, which he gradually becomes more obsessed with. He tries to look for a cure, and after some research, he finds a book that explains the history behind the Zahir, and that it manifested previously as a, an, the bottom of a, and a vein in a column in a. According to the myth, everything on earth has the propensity to be a Zahir, but 'the Almighty does not allow more than one thing at a time to be it, since one alone can seduce multitudes.' Borges tells us that soon he will be unable to perceive external reality, and he will have to be dressed and fed; but then he reflects that this fate does not worry him, since he will be oblivious to it. In philosophy, 'to live and to dream are synonymous,' and he will simply pass 'from a very complex dream to a very simple dream.'

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In a mixture of despair and resignation, he wonders: Others will dream that I am mad, and I [will dream] of the Zahir. When all men on earth think day and night of the Zahir, which one will be a dream and which a reality, the earth or the Zahir? Other works of the same title [ ] The title of (2005) by writer refers to Borges' story. It tells the story of a man who becomes obsessed with his wife, who has disappeared. Notes [ ] • 'The Zahir' is in many ways the opposite of ', the subject of another Borges short story also published in the same short story collection.

Whereas viewing the Aleph causes the observer to see all things, viewing the Zahir causes the observer eventually to see nothing but it. • This is one of many Borges stories that manifests the author's obsession with. (The story mentions a man afflicted by the Zahir who sees only tigers.) • Borges touches upon the concept of the Zahir in his short story ', also published in 1949. In that story, Borges wrote: 'I had come to understand many years before that there is nothing on earth that does not contain the seed of a possible Hell; a face, a word, a compass, a cigarette advertisement, are capable of driving a person mad if he is unable to forget them.' Both stories also contain similar passages about a piece of art containing tigers.

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