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Orhan Pamuk Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The King of the Arabs and His Labyrinth

The reverend alabi tells the story of two kings who were taken for a king. The first pretended to be ibni ha kan, and in the end he became ibni ha Kan. He wanted one day to look back on having been a king, or having been taken for aKing.

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