“"Maybe this crime belongs to the history of Jewish superstitions," murmmured Lönnrot.
"Like Christianity," the editor put in.”

— Jorge Luis Borges , book Ficciones

"Death and the Compass"
Ficciones (1944)

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

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