WvB: Once more into the breach!

Basileios Drolias b.drolias at ic.ac.uk
Wed Jan 17 03:44:42 CST 1996



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                    We Await Silent Tristero's Empire
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On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Burgess, John wrote:

>  he's saying that "nothing is completely forgotten, EVEN 
> IF it's no longer among the living."

There is a famous Jorge Borges poem that starts: "One thing does not 
exist: oblivion"...

Could this actually be a reference to Richard Farina then? After all the 
book is dedicated to him? Maybe there is actually more of RF in the book 
than I thought...

basil




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