Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius – Jorge Luis Borges

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius – Jorge Luis Borges

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country house on Gaona Street in Ramos Mejia; the encyclopedia is fallaciously called The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia (New York, 1917) and is a literal but delinquent reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica […]