"The Translators of The Thousand and One Nights", essay by Jorge Luis Borges
https://gwern.net/doc/borges/1936-borges-thetranslatorsofthethousandandonenights.pdf

92      Encomium, warm or high praise, strong commendation

96      "They are already well acquainted with the men, mores,
       talismans, deserts, and demons that the tales reveal to us."
       Mores is the Latin mōrēs, sg. mōs, the customs, habits, morals
       of a society.

106     "To celebrate Mardrus' fidelity is to leave out the soul of
       Mardrus, to ignore Mardrus entirely.  It is his infidelity, his
       happy and creative infidelity, that must matter to us."

107     "Enno Littmann, decipherer of the Ethiopic inscriptions in the
       fortress of Axum."  Axum, a town in Ethiopia, is the historic
       capital of the Aksumite Empire (which ended, according to
       Wikipedia, collapsed in 960 AD), notable for its obelisks and
       stelae.

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