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Labyrinths Death and the Compass
Title: Labyrinths Death and the Compass
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1262 | Pages: 5.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Labyrinths Death and the Compass
Upon my first reading of Jorge Luis Borges “Death and the Compass” I found myself reacting to the chain of events not unlike the bland but efficient Inspector Treviranus. The Hotel du Nord with its hateful whiteness, numbered divisibility, and general appearance of a bordello seemed a natural place for a crime of greed and betrayal to have gone sour on a luckless criminal. The lure of priceless sapphires and mistaken destination was more than …showed first 75 words of 1262 total…
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As his last moments slipped away Lonnot pondered his deeds and convictions, not quite knowing how or why his wits had betrayed him. He had been lured into a Labyrinth from which he could not escape, doomed to die at the hands of his archenemy. All at once he felt a cold and distant impersonal sadness, for a man of reason had tried to explain fate and got lost in the process.
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