“Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.”

"The masked dyer Hakim of Merv" [El tintorero enmascarado Hakim de Merv] Universal History of Infamy (1935); also translated as "Hakim, Masked Dyer of Merv" ( review of "Hakim, Masked Dyer of Merv" http://www.elimae.com/reviews/borges/merv.html)

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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