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...course of the next hour I'll be here to moderate a discussion about the first episode, and we have planned for academics to hold live discussions here after every subsequent episode of Civilisations. Join in the discussion by posting a response in the Comments section below. I'd like to start just by asking what you think of Episode 1 and what your hopes and expectations...

...course, but also Polish, Belarusian, German, Russian, Tatar… Unfortunately, very much like in the biblical story, they were unable to understand each other, divided as they were, by their respective languages. I became a physician but I have always been interested in languages. As a boy, I managed to learn a few with the help of my father. He taught me French and...

...course. As a young man, he idealised the Buenos Aires underworld—its knife fighters provided him with a recurring theme. Yet in a conscious snub to Argentine nationalism, he chose to die in Geneva. Read at The Economist: Sightless seer of Buenos Aires Borges film reviewing career ended by the time he was 55, when his degenerative eye disease left him totally blind....