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The greatest humiliation of his life

By TF | Published: November 4, 2009

“Undoubtedly Dante himself had envisioned this meeting differently. Nothing in the preceding pages indicates that the greatest humiliation of his life awaits him here.” By Theophil Spoerri, taken from ‘The Meeting in a Dream’, one of Jorge Luis Borges’s Dantesque Essays. Purgatorio: Canto XXX When the Septentrion of the highest heaven (Which never either setting knew or [...]

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