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8:15 timestamp. I can hear that Efraín Kristal is using ((forby)) here. But it is chiefly Scottish, as dictionaries explain. What can you hear?

EFRAÍN KRISTAL: Yes, I mean, when you came back to Argentina he was very much involved in a literary journals, he wrote articles for the Sunday newspaper. He also worked in women's journals. And this is quite extraordinary, because in his work in women’s journals, he began to infuse his prose with the works of many writers that were completely unknown to Argentina, 8:15 ((forby)) educating Argentine women in fashion magazines any number of extraordinary writers Schopenhauer, Tomas Mann, Kafka, T. S. Eliot began to be talked about in Argentina. And these early articles were the seeds of some of it most extraordinary contributions to the essay. For example the essays on T.S. Eliot were the seeds to these wonderful essays he later wrote about writers creating the wrong precursors, about the realities that literature creates, and the reinterpretations that we must take on board with respect to previous writers once a new writer comes into being. This was the experimental ground for some of his most interesting ideas.

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