But perhaps what he meant was TikTok. I have been spending a lot of time gazing at TikTok. Too long.
It contains all kinds of strange and almost unimaginable items. Almost but not quite, since someone must have imagined them.
No wonder today’s youth are so cut off from reality if they get their ideas from TikTok.
Lately it has been relaying the most ridiculous stuff: power grids down in Spain and France and strangest of all the BBC has broadcast an honest documentary about Zionism and Israel by Theroux.
In the Borges story the alien plants and animals start to be discovered in real life…
Jonathan Brind