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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