For 10 points, name this Jorge Luis Borges story titled for a fictional point in space that contains the entire universe.
One character in this story notes that for the modern man, "actual travel is superfluous", because technology has "inverted the story of Mohammed and the mountain". It opens on a "burning February morning" in the Constitution Plaza, where its narrator is pained by the sight of ads for American cigarettes. Its epilogue laments the poor reception given to its narrator's book The Sharper's Cards and compares the title entity to a list of items, including the sevenfold cup of Kai Khosrau and a (*) speaking pillar in the Amr mosque in Cairo. At the beginning of this story, the narrator is mourning the death of Beatriz Viterbo, after which he meets her cousin, the mediocre poet Carlos Argentino Daneri, whose basement contains the title object. For 10 points, name this Jorge Luis Borges story titled for a fictional point in space that contains the entire universe.
One character in this story notes that for the modern man, "actual travel is superfluous", because technology has "inverted the story of Mohammed and the mountain".
"The Aleph" [or "El Aleph']