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The law student is the main character of the fictional novel The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim, which Borges writes about in his story of the same name. The student, who is Muslim, accidentally kills a Hindu in a brawl in Bombay. Afterwards, he becomes a vagrant in search of the sage Al-Mu’tasim.
The Law Student Quotes in Ficciones
The Ficciones quotes below are all either spoken by The Law Student or refer to The Law Student. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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2. The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim Quotes
The plot is as follows: a man, the incredulous and fugitive student whom we already know, falls among people of the vilest class and adjusts himself to them, in a kind of contest of infamy. All at once, with the miraculous consternation of Robinson Crusoe faced with the human footprint in the sand—he perceives some mitigation in this infamy: a tenderness, an exaltation, a silence in one of the abhorrent men.
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The Law Student Character Timeline in Ficciones
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2. The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim
In the novel, a young unnamed law student in Bombay struggles with his Islamic faith. One night, he accidentally walks into a brawl...
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...interrupts his review of The Approach to Al-Mu’Tasim to comment that the narrative shows a student falling in with the lowest classes. The student sees a tenderness in these people that...
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