In a story by this author, one character follows his “pet principle of verbal ostentation” by inventing the word “lactinacious” to replace “milky” in a poem he is writing. The narrator of a story by this author reflects that “contact is an illusion” while petting a cat in a cafe. In a story by this author, the narrator injures his forehead while rushing up the stairs to (15[1])read a copy of Arabian Nights. That story by this author ends with the narrator accepting an offer of a (*) knife fight and marching out to a probable death on the plain. This author, who created Juan Dahlmann in “The South,” also wrote a (10[1])story whose narrator lies on the nineteenth step of Carlos Viterbo’s basement staircase before seeing every point in the (10[1])universe. For 10 points, name this Argentine author of“The Aleph.” ■END■