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After reporting that two Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts worth nearly $1 million had been lost and presumably stolen, Harvard Square’s Lame Duck Books found them yesterday hidden in a photograph sleeve in the store itself.
“It doesn’t get more surreal than that. This is like a Borges short story,” Roll said about the fact that the manuscript was found on the day the Crimson story was published.
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Mariano Siskind, whose specialities include 20th century Latin American literature, said Borges would have liked the mystery surrounding the manuscripts’ disappearance.
After it reported that two Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts worth nearly $1 million had been lost and presumably stolen, Harvard Square's Lame Duck Books found the manuscripts today hidden in a photograph sleeve in the store itself.
"It doesn't get more surreal than that. This is like a Borges short story," Roll said about the fact that the manuscript was found on the morning that the Crimson' story was published.