Back to V., MB's structure post cont.

[John Bailey]

I did not realise that, and I've read Tlön, Uqbar.

Like I said, no government. Chaos reigns.

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Robin pointed us to PynchonWiki's article on the etymology of Vheissu, and John replied:
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>> Well, I never knew Vheissu mightn't have been an original P invention.
>> There ya go.
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> You do realize, don't you, that the book "Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen Über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien" by Johann Valentin Andreä is a fictional work concocted by Borges in his story "Tlön, Uqbar"? Andreä was a real person, but he didn't write a book about Ukkbar (or Vheissu), and whoever wrote the original post about the mention of Vheissu in Andreä's travelogue must've had a bit of a laugh. Vheissu remains an original P invention, all the way through (and if the two of you were just sharing a private inside joke, I apologize for pointing out the obvious).
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> Tore