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The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
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<p>"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" is a <a href="/facts/Fantasy/gkujmhJg">fantasy</a> <a href="/facts/Short_story/KU6X7XWI">short story</a> written in 1935 by <a href="/facts/Argentina/aFSA5bAk">Argentine</a> writer <a href="/facts/Jorge_Luis_Borges/UgfVLqdk">Jorge Luis Borges</a>. In his autobiographical essay, Borges wrote about "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", "it now seems to me to foreshadow and even to set the pattern for those tales that were somehow awaiting me, and upon which my reputation as a storyteller was to be based." </p>