Beyond.

Alberto Manguel on Borges and the impossibility of writing ...

It is a fact that the fundamental paradox of language is apparent in almost every culture.  In Islamic thought, the letters of the alphabet have an independent, divinely decreed will effected before pen is put to paper and over which the scribe has no control.  In the 16th century, Tulsidas, the greatest of Hindu poets, argued that the reality of fiction is always other than the reality of the material world world and overrides it.  In Zen Buddhism, the instantaneous illumination, or Sartori, is always both within and beyond the grasp of words. So, in all these cases, as of course in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the rightest impossibilities appear to be essentially two: to conceive properly and to put properly the concept into words.  The writer's craft is therefore twice constrained by the limits of imagination, which require faith to provide the evidence of things not seen, as St. Paul had it, and by the limits of language which require writers to rely on, what Coleridge called the willing suspension of disbelief, of their readers and listeners ...