Ts’ui Pên is Yu Tsun’s great-grandfather in “The Garden of Forking Paths.” He is famous for having set out to write a novel and create a labyrinth, and though he did write a novel, everyone thinks he failed because he never created the labyrinth. However, Stephen Albert—who is familiar with Ts’ui Pên’s work—tells Yu Tsun that his great-grandfather actually did create a labyrinth: after all, the novel itself was the labyrinth.