“The Palace of Wonders”, 2011-05-23 (; backlinks):
A Borgesian fable about the Caliph and the Koran.
Like “The Ones Who Walk Towards Acre”, “The Palace of Wonders” is both a short story and part of a larger story, Cloud Nine. “Acre” was based on a visual dream loosely inspired by a Le Guin story, but “Wonders” instead stemmed from a misremembering of lines in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman story, “Ramadan”.