Borneo in Absalom, Absalom! (Location)

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Borneo
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2115
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1376
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Borneo is an island off the coast of southeast Asia. In Absalom! its fabled head-hunters provide a metaphorical point-of-reference: Clytemnestra's "body just grew smaller and smaller like something being shrunk in a furnace, like the Bornese do their captured heads" (175).

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Continuous
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Foreign Country
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