Things to Consider:

• Time / Chronology / History 
• Loyalty (i.e. to family, to country, to posterity)
• Race
• Nationality(ies)

• According to the editors, what does the labyrinth represent in Borges's writing?

1337:

• Explain: Borges "preferred art that calls attention to its own artificiality" (1337).

• Explain the significance of footnote #3.
• What secret does Tsun hold?

• Why does Tsun want to reveal this secret to the Germans?
• Why does Tsun buy a ticket for a more distant station? What might this represent?
• Explain:  "The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past" (1339).

• What is a circular book?

• Explain:  "Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures" (1344).
• Why does Tsun kill Albert?

• What is the significance of the first two pages being gone (how do we know there are two)?
• Who is Dr. Yu Tsun?
• Who is Capt. Richard Madden? Why is he after Tsun?
• Who is Runeberg?

• What is the Thousand and One Nights?

• Explain the discussion of chess.

• Why is Tsun contrite at the end?