the first lines are quoted from: "the wall and the books".

in different translations it may be referred as:
the esthetic act
the esthetic fact
the aesthetic event
the aesthetic phenomenon ...

Personally, I find the aesthetic act in the numerous to infinite number of bifurcations that the "imminence of a revelation that does not take place" can grow into in description. That is, by the power of of extending conscious attention adinfinitum

10x FastTfriend for yr remark.
most probably me too.. )) prefer the term "act", as to indicate the critical space of actuation of that which never "take place".

Can anyone translate what Fast T said please, lol

Sweet clip.

WTF are you all talking about?

@Antara, lol indeed of course the comment here reverbrates with certain reflective ventage point which I feel a bit reluctant to dismantle. Yet, the least I can do is referrence Borges's own words:
"Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality" (Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - you can check it out here ).
The "imminence of a revelation that does not take place' i take here in the meaning of a pointer (clearly poetic, as so much of Borges' prose is) of the concept of probability.

Forking Borges: "In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."