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...number of times a text mentions camels. “The first thing a falsifier, a tourist, an Arab nationalist would do is have a surfeit of camels, caravans of camels, on every page,” writes Jorge Luis Borges in his essay “The Argentine Writer and Tradition.” In what is perhaps the greatest (the only?) assault on the dromedary in prose, Borges goes on to deride the animal as an outrageously artificial exoticism, the employ of those lacking both imagination and a real understanding of their own culture. After all, the most...
...Staff writer Jillian K. Kushner can be reached at kushner@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff Writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu
...Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...