Known allusion?

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] 1:2::time:space Joseph