In a cellar in Buenos Aires, the narrator finds a point that contains all other points, where all places in the world can be seen simultaneously. Borges's story is about infinity, about memory, about literature itself. The Aleph is everything; the story containing it is brief. The narrator's rivalry with the mediocre poet Carlos Argentino Daneri, who also knows the Aleph, is both comic and melancholy. Borges suggests that the infinite can be found in the ordinary, that every point contains every other point. The story is a labyrinth. It is also a map of the labyrinth.