One character in this story boasts about describing an Australian region with the brilliant line of poetry, "Yawns a bored skeleton A— Color?
One character in this story boasts about describing an Australian region with the brilliant line of poetry, "Yawns a bored skeleton A— Color? Sky-pearly." A postscript in this story mentions a manuscript by the Brazilian consul Captain Burton that discusses a mirror owned by Alexander the Great. One character in this story rants against the obsession with literary prologues, an attitude he calls "prologomania," before asking the narrator to recommend someone to write a "foreword" for his poetry collection aiming to versify every terrestrial feature of the planet, titled The Earth. The narrator of this story visits a house every April 30th on Calle Garay after the death of Beatriz Viterbo. At the end of this story Zunni tries to stop the landlords Zunino and Zungri from tearing down a house where Carlos Argentino Daneri shows the narrator the title object at the nineteenth step down to the basement. For 10 points, name this 1945 short story titled for a symbol of infinity where one can see every point in the universe, written by Jorge Luis Borges.
One character in this story boasts about describing an Australian region with the brilliant line of poetry, "Yawns a bored skeleton A— Color?
"El Aleph" [or "The Aleph"]