for those (like me) wondering where this wonderful passage is excerpted from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

""On Exactitude in Science" or "On Rigor in Science" (the original Spanish-language title is "Del rigor en la ciencia") is a one-paragraph short story by Jorge Luis Borges, about the map-territory relation, written in the form of a literary forgery."