Nine-tenths of reality
Byrnes Weir
weir at interlog.com
Wed Jun 11 09:28:07 CDT 1997
At 09:49 AM 6/11/97 BST, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:
>Byrnes Weir writes:
>> 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
>
>No, but my friend Bioy Casares has been telling me for years that I
>ought to read him. Maybe I should add him to my reading pile.
>
>
Andrew:
Is this the same Bioy Casares who was a collaborator and
friend of Borges?
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