Hello, I noticed this once. No doubt it's been considered and either rejected or accepted a long time ago, but I haven't read much commentary.
1. Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths":
"'I see that the worthy Hsi P'eng has troubled himself to see to relieving my solitude. No doubt you want to see the garden?'"
[narrator is then shown a book, which is the garden, and subsequently kills the other]
2. Wolfe, Claw of the Conciliator, end of Ch. XX:
"and I said, 'Then you can show me where the garden is.'"
[ditto]
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Joseph