Self-reference

[Jhildt at aol.com]

Paul Di Filippo writes:

Fictional books within books--references to real or imagined
narratives--introduce all kinds of weirdnesses, and authors
have been playing with these to good effects for years. 

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One of my favorite examples is Borges' "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" in which
an entire world (or alternate universe?) is posited from just one volume of
an encyclopedia previously only rumored to exist.  A made-up story about a
(made-up) book describing a (made-up) civilization.

And BTW, the blind master gets the respect he deserves at:

http://www.microserve.net/~thequail/libyrinth/borges.html


                (dream tiger) Jeff