(adjective) empyreal / (noun) the highest heaven …
A Personal Anthology
by
Jorge Luis Borges
May 25, 2023 - May 27, 2023
(read, fiction)
Luis Borges, J. (1967). A Personal Anthology. Grove Press/Atlantic (NY).
p.176
empyrean »
p.129
solecism »
a grammatical mistake in speech or writing
p.119
theophanies »
(noun) a visible manifestation of a deity
p.109
vainglory »
(noun) excessive or ostentatious pride especially…
p.102
pullulating »
breed or spread so as to become extremely common;…
p.200
Things happen to him, the other one, to Borges. I…
p.190
He had asked God for an entire year in which to f…
p.188
Hladík had never asked himself whether this tragi…
p.186
Hladík was past forty. Apart from a few friendshi…
p.108
[...] The first, that if the end purpose of the p…
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Death and the Compass
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The Plot
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The South
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The Dead Man
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Matthew 25:30
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Funes, the Memorious
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A New Refutation of Time
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Limits
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Limits
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The Circular Ruins
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Chess
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The Golem
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Inferno I, 32
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The Other Tiger
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A Yellow Rose
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Baltasar Gracián
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To an Old Poet
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Parable of the Palace
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The Wall and the Books
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Ariosto and the Arabs
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Averroës’ Search
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A Soldier of Urbina
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The Maker
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Everything and Nothing
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From Someone to No One
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Forms of a Legend
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The Zahir
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The Aleph
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The Cyclical Night
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The Tango
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The End
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The Captive
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Paradiso XXXI, 108
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Luke 23
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The Witness
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The Modesty of History
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The Secret Miracle
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Conjectural Poem
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The Gifts
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The Moon
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The Art of Poetry
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Borges and I
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