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Borges

[ bawr-hes ]

noun

  1. Jor·ge Luis [hawr, -he lwees], 1899–1986, Argentine poet, short-story writer, and philosophical essayist.


Borges

/ ˈborxes /

noun

  1. BorgesJorge Luis18991986MArgentinianWRITING: poetWRITING: short-story writerWRITING: literary scholar Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"


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A July 2020 study “showed that 5 percent of the population carried the active virus — that is one person in 20, a very high rate,” Borges says.

Over time, Borges wrote, “the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province.”

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Luckily, Borges was taken to hospital and has since recovered.

Maria Borges, an African model in her second VS show, said everyone back home in Angola would be watching her.

Still other critics are baffled that Borges was influenced by such strange and disparate sources.

Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.

Borges had an almost Evelyn Waugh-like capacity for sucking up to the upper classes.

It was not a wise move, but then Borges was never known for wise moves except when writing.

In 1515 he received a sum of money to enable his sister Felipa Borges to marry.

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