Nooteboom in Relation to Borges

I was reading The Following Story and a passage caught my eye. In relation to what Ben Leubner was talking about in class today, the theory that everyone is a part of everyone, this concept fits perfectly. "The first hours no one spoke. A priest, an airline pilot, a child, a teacher, a journalist, an academic. They made up the group, someone or no one had decided: these were to be the mirrors in which we would see ourselves." (Nooteboom pg. 67) On the page preceeding this passage, another, more subtle reference to the same theory emerges. "All of us stared at the process, all those different eyes, which would become so familiar to me during the next few days..." (Nooteboom pg. 66). The piece about the eyes becoming familiar to the narrator is of little importance, but the idea that all of these people's different eyes are looking at the same thing connects them in some way.