It is no exaggeration to say that the classical culture of Tlön is composed of a single discipline — psychology — to which all others are subordinate. I have said that the people of that planet conceive the universe as a series of mental processes that occur not in space but rather successively, in time. Spinoza endows his inexhaustible deity with the attributes of spatial extension and of thought; no one in Tlön would understand the juxtaposition of the first, which is typical only of certain states, and the second — which is a perfect synonym for the cosmos. Or to put it another way: space is not conceived as having duration in time.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"










