Ficciones Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part Two, Artifices, The Sect of the Phoenix Summary

Part Two, Artifices, The Sect of the Phoenix Summary

There is a secret organization called the Sect of the Phoenix. Most of its members will not respond to the word Phoenix, but instead call themselves men of the secret. These people are the same as everyone else, including Jews, and have been persecuted like Jews, but they do not keep records of these persecutions. The Sect also does not have a unique language that only they speak, but speak the same languages as those around them. The Sect includes the rich, the poor, children and adults. The Sect is all people, the only thing that makes them different is the secret they keep, a secret no one knows nor is likely to ever find out.

Part Two, Artifices, The Sect of the Phoenix Analysis

The Sect of the Phoenix is a short description of a group of people who are keepers of some great secret. What is ironic about these people is that they themselves do not refer...
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