Opening with the narrator recalling that April thirtieth was the birthday of his former lover, this work sees its narrator visit his cousin, who leads the narrator into his cellar to lie on a sack, where he is able to see, in a "small iridescent sphere," the multitudes of America, a sunset in Querétaro, the bones of Beatriz Viterbo--in short, the unimaginable universe.
In this work, one character explains his use of the words "azures" and "ceruleans" instead of "blue" in his poem, which takes second prize to a work by Dr. Aita. In its postscript, the narrator explains that Captain Burton's manuscript suggests that the title entity on Garay Street was actually false. Opening with the narrator recalling that April thirtieth was the birthday of his former lover, this work sees its narrator visit his cousin, who leads the narrator into his cellar to lie on a sack, where he is able to see, in a "small iridescent sphere," the multitudes of America, a sunset in Querétaro, the bones of Beatriz Viterbo--in short, the unimaginable universe. However, the narrator tells Carlos Argentino Daneri that he saw nothing at the end of, FTP, which short story by Jorge Luis Borges?
In this work, one character explains his use of the words "azures" and "ceruleans" instead of "blue" in his poem, which takes second prize to a work by Dr. Aita.
“El {Aleph}”