Nine-tenths of reality

Byrnes Weir weir at interlog.com
Tue Jun 10 11:34:30 CDT 1997


Andrew wrote on June 10:
>Not necessarily, but you should see my Encyclopaedia.  I swear it has
>an entry for this country call `Tlon' and I can't find it nywhere on
>the map.  Although, then again, maybe it's my Atlas which is out of
>date . . .

        I wonder if you are familiar with a story by Jorge Luis Borges
        "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," which gets its inspiration from
        the eleventh volume of your encyclopedia

                                        All the best, Byrnes Weir
                         




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