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Topic: Jorge Luis Borges

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Pack of cubans
Most admires:Fidel Castro,  David Beckham,  Marquise de Sade
People talk about their ..:Weirdness
Favorite era(s):Prehistoric times
Favorite explorer(s):Hernan Cortes
Favorite body part(s):Eyes
Favorite great leader(s):Primo de Rivera,  Francisco Franco
Favorite great thinker(s):Timothy Leary
Likes to wear:Afro
Favorite sportsperson(s):Diego Maradona,  Romario,  Pele (soccer)
Favorite destination(s):Mexico,  California,  Spain
Favorite type of dance(s):Tango,  Salsa
 
 
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation is a trilingual site offering access to bibliographic, critical and other resources.
The Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation is an academic organization based at The University of Aarhus in Denmark, dedicated to the research of works by J.
Borg Svemann,
Woodworker

Well, it is known that Jorge Luis Borges was "mythically" attracted by the Nordic countries and to "the words with which the rugged Nord sang its seas and its swords.
Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Rodolfo Wilcock was born in Buenos Aires and belonged to the literary group surrounding Jorge Luis Borges.
This is the second edition of the 1978 structural analysis of the works of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), focusing on his short stories.
Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner

Jorge Luis Borges at 100: A Lecture by Carlos Fuentes The Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes delivered a presentation about Borges on October 18 at New York City's 92nd Street Y.
Jorge Luis Borges: intervenciones sobre pensamiento y literatura.
There is a melancholy fantasy, propounded a century and more ago by the psychologist Theodor Fechner and taken up by Kurt Lassiwitz, Theodor Wolff, Jorge Luis Borges, George Gamow, and Willy Ley, of a complete library.
Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker

Although Colonel Borges was shot and killed in 1874, Grandmother Fanny was around to tell the young Jorge Luis -- "Georgie" -- many stories of the wild frontier days.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

Jorge Luis Borges in This Craft of Verse (his collected Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1967-1968) made the following statement: ‘Poetry is not alien – poetry is, as we shall see, lurking around the corner.
A scattered dynasty of recluses, the translators of Jorge Luis Borges in prose, poetry, and fiction, in every language in which books may be sold in sufficient numbers to justify the printing costs, has changed the face of the earth -- and their dark work continues.
In a story called "The Book of Sand", the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges tells a story about a meeting between a dealer in rare books and an itinerant Bible salesman, who sells him a very old and worn volume of Holy Writ in an Arabic script.
 
 
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