A maze is a structure built purposely to confuse men; its architecture, prodigal in symmetries, is made to serve that purpose. (The Immortal. The Aleph and other stories, Jorge Luis Borges)

This building, and especially this hallway, made me feel like I’m in the City of the Immortals from Borges’ story The Immortal. In the story he describes the city as a immense labyrinth full of dead-ends, inverted stairways and chaotic architectural structures. The main character, horrified and repulsed by the city, describes it as "a chaos of heterogeneous words, the body of a tiger or a bull in which teeth, organs and heads monstrously pullulate in mutual conjunction and hatred. “

This palace is the work of the gods, was my first thought. I explored the uninhabited spaces and I corrected myself: The gods that built this place have died. Then I reflected upon its peculiarities, and told myself: The gods that built this place were mad. I said this, I know, in a tone of incomprehensible reproof that verged upon remorse-with more intellectual horror than sensory fear. The impression of great antiquity was joined by others: the impression of endlessness, the sensation of oppressiveness and horror, the sensation of complex irrationality.

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Taken on: April 14, 2016

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