Word: droctulft
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...fable, Borges imagines Droc-tulft, a barbarian, fighting against the Romans at the siege of Ravenna. When Droctulft's eyes fix on the city he is helping to storm, he sees for the first time "a whole that is complex and yet without disorder. He knows that in the city he will be a dog or a child, and that he will not even begin to understand it, but that it is worth more than his god and his sworn faith and the German marshes." Droctulft deserts and dies fighting for dying Rome. "He was not a traitor," writes...