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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Infinite Word of God

A thousand and one nights is a series of tales that are told to keep the teller alive as she tells a story every night. Boorhiss, yes, I think in terms of positioning these things, he's nesting all these different traditions,. One with the other and finding how incredibly complementary they are. The notion that readers can get a infinite number of meanings out of something is also a very unsettling notion.

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