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Orhan Pamuk Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Borges and the Labyrinth

Our sense of labyrinth is endlessly intertwined with our sense of borges. Borges loves to mdramatize the passionate, dreamy youngster who's thinking about metaphysics and loves even more to dismiss this persona ha ha, ha, ha ha. Indean like this famous story that once they asked a french guy which french king you like? And hesad, some king. And why do you low? It's not important, but i was young thenThis person said, so borges was young before the first world war, and then an enthusiasm to go to that war. It was a war of patriotism and machine guns. Maybe he was not radical critic of social structures that

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