Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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 that the truly essential events of history have probably gone unrecorded. Everyone knows the paltry date upon which Columbus first set foot in the New World, but who knows, Borges asks, the really important and prophetic moment when Aeschylus added a second actor to his stage-opening possibilities for dialogue and dramatic interaction...