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Inception fic! Because I've lost all control of my life.

When I first watched Inception, I decided it was very disappointing that Jorge Luis Borges was already dead and would not be able to dissect it for our entertainment. That would have been amazing. It is also the reason this fic is so heavily Borges influenced as to almost be a crossover. I had big ideas for this fic. And then they didn’t work, so I had to rearrange the entire thing and chop out 3000+ words…

Anyway, sometimes you mess with a fic for ten years and are finally forced to accept that it’s as good as it’s going to get. Ngl I may have screwed up the formula for transfinite numbers. I tried.

Thank you so much to Zephy for the beta. Both times.

No Spinozists were harmed in the making of this fic. All italicized quotes are from various Borges essays and short stories.

Summary: The two most important people in Arthur’s life are Mal and Eames. In their own, different ways, they’ve understood him, supported him, even defined him for most of his adult life.

Which is why it’s completely ridiculous that he’s ended up wandering the world alone with Dominic Cobb.

(Also on AO3)


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