In “The Wall and the Books”, the essay that is part of “Other Inquisitions”, Borges cites an interesting historical clue. The first emperor of ancient China, Shih Huang Ti, burned all the ancient books to abolish history and the past, and on the other hand, he built the Long Wall of China because the barbarians were taken away, when they threatened from the north. excellent first essay of this great book which ends with an emotional and light sentence, "this imminent revelation never happens, perhaps it is the aesthetic fact". So let's see the fantasies that Borges saw in this intelligent essay. If we didn't pay enough attention to this last sentence, perhaps we wouldn't be able to understand its true meaning. If we think about the aesthetic fact (which) never happens we will probably discover that this never happens because it has no content as Borges himself said, and therefore this fact without content would hide something. It means the aesthetic, the aesthetic born of strange and too familiar causes. The German word “heimlich” refers to both meanings. This will never happen due to the rest of waiting alone. Waiting for a symbol or something to save us from ignorance. For Schopenhauer, aesthetics is the saving element to escape from the circle of the Will, for Borges, however, aesthetics is almost as if it would never happen, or something that we have lost. forever and ever, or something that always announces something that will never happen. For Borges aesthetics is the system of dark shades of suitable forms, something like a crowded troop of furious ghosts, and so the forms have nothing to do, only to look into the silent eternal abundance, where nothing can change everything. Then, to ensure that it never happens, find some reference. This will never come back, otherwise we would never recognize him or meet him. The aesthetic fact is an operation that serves to make sex and death fade in the main myths of humanity. Otherwise the aesthetic fact serves to possess the place and time and all things belong to the uncertain as Todorov said, where it is too easy to bifurcate. Yet this vast world continues to be the same. According to Borges, the aesthetic fact serves to hide, to simulate the unknown and obscured rules that shape reality. But Borges called it aesthetics in a certain sense, in an inverse way. In this case the aesthetic is not made up of simple gentle and delicate shapes.