Word: angular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...denial of the existence of absolute space. For Borges' admirers, the delicious point is simply that he takes reality with a grain of salt. Great events, vast trends, the pompous certainties implied by the French phrase grands mots -all these are not for Borges. History, that troubling angular presence that the middle-aged invoke to prove to the young that nothing ever really changes or can be changed, may not exist at all. In a typically brief but suggestive essay, significantly entitled The Modesty of History, Borges rejects "the influence of Cecil B. DeMille" and self-serving nationalism, asserting...