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Caesar Aira is part of that race of literate people who have too many ideas. It is rare to say it as if it were a bad thing, I mean, the 'too much', as if the excess was in excess of quality. It is not the case. In that race or, better, on that side, they would be, for example, Kurt Vonnegut, Stanisław Lem or the Uruguayan Leandro Delgado. Only, in the case of Aira, the too many ideas are added either a notorious absence of laziness or a fatal g…