One story in this collection ends as a drop of water rolls down the face of the protagonist before he is killed by a volley from a firing squad, and another describes a character that borrows a Latin dictionary and effortlessly reads the Historia Naturalis after falling from his horse and becoming a cripple.  
One character in this collection recalls how he accepted his sudden paralysis and uses his eyes to ask whether anyone is in his store, and another character in this collection orders a listener to despise him after relating the story of how he got the crescent-shaped scar on his face.  One story in this collection ends as a drop of water rolls down the face of the protagonist before he is killed by a volley from a firing squad, and another describes a character that borrows a Latin dictionary and effortlessly reads the Historia Naturalis after falling from his horse and becoming a cripple.  One character in this collection walks into a wall of fire to discover that he cannot burn, and another character in this collection is driven by the approach of Captain Madden to shoot and kill the sinologist Stephen Albert.  FTP, name this short story collection including The Form of the Sword, The Circular Ruins, and The Garden of Forking Paths, a work of Jorge Luis Borges.
One character in this collection recalls how he accepted his sudden paralysis and uses his eyes to ask whether anyone is in his store, and another character in this collection orders a listener to despise him after relating the story of how he got the crescent-shaped scar on his face.  
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