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Paul Theroux Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Gospel According to Mark

In some ways the gospel according to Mark feels like a horror story. Do you think Borjas was trying to say something about the danger of religion? Espinosa is sort of waffling between his father and his mother's positions. There's a suggestion that Jesus wasn't exactly a magician but was a kind of Hakim. He was a healer.

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