
Borges & the Labyrinth of Mirrors w/ Aldous Asterion
Art of Darkness
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Bors Bors: Director of the National Library
Peron barely escaped with his life, leaving Nelly Rivas, his teenage girlfriend behind and fleeing on a gunboat provided by the Paraguayan leader. They took power in a coup three days later, which they named the Revolutian Libera Todora. As director of the national library, he sponsored several measures intended to overcome what he saw as the narrow-minded Philisthenism of the Peronus regime. He would shortly revive La Bibliotheca, the defunct journal of the library; instituted a program of lectures by distinguished speakers committed to the cause of intellectual freedom.
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