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Spanish
Adverb
al bies
- on the bias; diagonally
2022 January 14, Berna González Harbour, quoting Clara Obligado, “Clara Obligado: “Borges era aburridísimo””, in El País:Lo más importante: que alguien como él puede ser aburridísimo a unos niveles importantes. Y a leer al bies. Borges me daba literatura inglesa y no tocaba Shakespeare, Byron, que daba por sentado, sino a De Quincey, Christopher Marlowe.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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