Cultural References
Denis Diderot wrote an article about the Agnus Scythicus in the first edition of his Encyclopédie. The Borometz appears in Jorge Luis Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings.
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“The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
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