My apologies to Frank for such a lengthy (fair use) quotation, but to reduce his writing to pith would be to excise the Borgesian absurdity that is so relevant to the landscape he describes.
Even at their most opaque, the animated puppet films of the Brothers Quay (Philadelphia-born identical twins who now live in London) are eerily moving, like ancient volumes brought from the obscurity of a Borgesian library into the light.