In at least two hundred words, discuss how borges used allusions to further connect his ideas. use examples from the text to support your ideas.

traditionally, people think of time chronologically. borges suggested an alternative in the image of branches or paths that fork out in different directions and take on different dimensions, twisting and turning with events in no particular order. the description of the tangled branches are an extended metaphor that states that time in not as straightforward and linear as one might think. in the story, the narrator makes allusions to other past storytellers. borges alludes to several past literary works, implying their connection over time. these become metaphors for the connection of people on earth throughout history. borges' allusions to other works of fiction are a way he merges truth and fiction. “when scheherazade (through a magical oversight of the copyist) begins to relate word for word the story of the thousand and one nights, establishing the risk of coming once again to the night when she must repeat it, and thus on to infinity.” the mention of the thousand and one nights is a metaphor for the garden of forking paths because a tale within a tale, or a frame story.

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