In the following three short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, we see how the idea of real the and illusion influence one another as described by the author and in his work. In the first short story, Everything and Nothing, Borges explains how people hide behind the illusion of being an actor in order to be some one other than themselves. In this short story, From Something to No One, he demonstrates the idea that G-d is " nothing " in illusionary thought, but is " everything " in reality. Limits, the third story, reverses the illusion of death's limits to a more legitimate reality.

Everything to Nothing, describes a man who petends to be someone, so it shouldn't be discovered that he was no one. He entered the profession of being an actor, someone who, on a stage, plays at being someone else in front of poeple who think he is really that person. He recieved great satisfaction from his work until the last lines were read and the last scene was completed and then he tatsted the "hateful taste of unreality." He would leave the stage where he is the image of a hereo in a tragic tale and once again become no one. Anthony Kerrigan who translates the short stories, states that this one

person plays many parts, and as Iago, from shakespeare, says " I am not what I am." This passage is perhaps a play on words taken from Exodus in the Old Testement, in which G-d prclaims: " I am what I am." Kerrigan continues to tell us that this man was in hallucination for twenty years. However one day he was overcome by the horror of all the kings he played that died by the sword and settled on the sale of his theater. He realized he had to become someone and made his fortune in making loans. He would only play the part of a poet when his friends from London came to visit. Before his death we are told he found himself facing G-d and said: " I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone." From a whirlwind G-d replied " I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and no one."

temporary rank or position. There are many different parts an actor can play. He could be a hero, a king, or a wealthy man, but on the other hand he could be a killer, robber, or even a rapist.We see from the short story Everything and Nothing, that people sometimes become actors to fill the emptiness of being a no one. The person, for a short while, is able to be someone in the eyes of other people. However, that is the illusion! The audience knows that when the performance is over the actor is himself again, and whether that be a someone or a no one, is the reality!

" There is an end to everything,... among the piles of volumes, there must be one which we will never read,.... more than one worn gate forbidden to my feet,....For you, there is some door you are closing for ever, and for you too, some mirror vainly waits....There is among all your memories one which is irreparably lost and gone,... Your voice will never recover what was said once, when at your dying, before the light disperses, you wish to utter unforgettable things." (Reid )

Kerrigan also describes the last moments of a p

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