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Paul Theroux Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Story of Daniel Espinosa

Espinosa met the Guthrie's, who had come originally from Inverness. They were peasant labourers and intermarried with Indians. Within a few generations they had forgotten their English. Espinosa mentioned his fine to them, but they hardly seemed to hear him. He leaped through the book and his fingers opened it to the first verses of the gospel according to St. Mark. The gratitude awakened by that cure amazed him. One night he dreamed of the flood, which is not surprising,. But he told himself it was thunder in fact the rain had led up for while again. It was very cold out there on Cabrara where a mailbox stood. Two cement lions on

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