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The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1945
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 12

A grieving man is shown, in a rival poet's cellar, a single point that contains every place in the universe seen from every angle at once.

I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth.
The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges

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