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This essay asserts that, opposite of his contemporaries, Oscar Wilde was a profound man who wanted to appear frivolous. The author of this essay imagines that his "Poem of the Gifts" could just as well have been written by his little-known countryman Paul Groussac. Early in this essay, its author contrasts the power of the German word "scarlach" with the impotence of the Spanish word "amarillo." Its author recalls chanting the Anglo-Saxon words for London and Rome with several female students enrolled in his English literature class. Its author famously remarks "I have always (*) imagined Paradise as a kind of library," highlighting the irony in being surrounded by nine hundred thousand books, but being unable to make out their spines and title pages. For 10 points, name this essay in which Borges meditates on the title condition that he suffered from
This essay asserts that, opposite of his contemporaries, Oscar Wilde was a profound man who wanted to appear frivolous.
Blindness" [or "La ceguera"]