Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’
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