" That character reads passages from his epic poem "La tierra," which the narrator calls "forgettable," after which the narrator describes images such as a "silvery spiderweb in the center of a dark pyramid," "a beach along the Caspian Sea," and "all the ants in the world."
A postscript to this story states that a character in it won the "National Prize for Literature" over the author's own work, "The Gambler's Deck." That character reads passages from his epic poem "La tierra," which the narrator calls "forgettable," after which the narrator describes images such as a "silvery spiderweb in the center of a dark pyramid," "a beach along the Caspian Sea," and "all the ants in the world." In the ironic conclusion, the poet, Carlos Argentino Daneri, asks the narrator if he saw "in color" the object located underneath his basement stairs. For ten points, name this story about a sphere that contains "one of the points in space that contains all other points," a work by Jorge Luis Borges.
A postscript to this story states that a character in it won the "National Prize for Literature" over the author's own work, "The Gambler's Deck.
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