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Richard Hell

Apology

CHAPTER

Borges: A Memoir of the Brazilian Amazon

You should get his collective works and read every page. If somebody wants to get started with Borges, what book do you think they should go to first? I would be really tempted to call it the greatest book of the 20th century. Claude Levi Strauss is a piece because that's the only book he wrote really for an element. He made his whole career as a ground breaking anthropologist with new ideas about anthropology. But he only spent like four or five months in the field in his whole life.

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