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... infinite , " all look inward . We can inhabit and share Asterion's self - perceptions : " What will my redeemer be like ?, I ask myself . Will he be a bull or a man ? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man ? Or will he be like ...
... infinite , " all look inward . We can inhabit and share Asterion's self - perceptions : " What will my redeemer be like ?, I ask myself . Will he be a bull or a man ? Will he perhaps be a bull with the face of a man ? Or will he be like ...
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... infinite num- ber of hexagonal galleries , with vast air shafts between , surrounded by very low railings " ( 51 ) . Thus revealing in the first sentence what promises to be the whole point of the story , Borges with deceptive frankness ...
... infinite num- ber of hexagonal galleries , with vast air shafts between , surrounded by very low railings " ( 51 ) . Thus revealing in the first sentence what promises to be the whole point of the story , Borges with deceptive frankness ...
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... infinite number of infinitely thin leaves . ( In the early seventeenth century , Cavalieri said that all solid bodies are the superimposition of an infinite number of planes . ) The handling of this silky vade mecum would not be ...
... infinite number of infinitely thin leaves . ( In the early seventeenth century , Cavalieri said that all solid bodies are the superimposition of an infinite number of planes . ) The handling of this silky vade mecum would not be ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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