• "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th-century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentine journal...
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    Uqbar Editores is a Chilean independent publishing company founded in 2006. Since its founding it has been characterized by the versatility of its catalog...
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  • Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel"...
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    derived historical chronology. Jorge Luis Borges, in his 1940 work, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, describes a fictional world in which some essentially follow...
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  • Tlon or TLON may refer to: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1940), a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The Legend of Neil, a parody web...
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  • and Ruthven Todd. Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths Prologue "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1940) "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" (1936, not included...
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  • cheerful." In 1940, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", which describes the invention by a "benevolent secret society"...
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  • "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", were a major influence on Sebald. (Tlön and Uqbar appear in The Rings of Saturn.) In a conversation...
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  • by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in his story/mock-essay "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Physicist R. V. Jones contrived Crabtree's Bludgeon, which...
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    runs through his work, reflected in the fictional world of Tlön in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and in his essay "A New Refutation of Time". Borges was...
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    pantheon of writers. Hinton is mentioned in Borges' short stories "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "There Are More Things" and "El milagro secreto" ("The...
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    Borges, in the same vision, wrote in one of the several footnotes of "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" that one of the churches of Tlön claims Platonically that...
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  • commissioned an encyclopedia of impossible things, a reference to either "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" or the Book of Imaginary Beings.[citation needed] The Library...
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    Magian Smerdis" is mentioned in the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. He is the only historical character that the protagonist...
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  • fictitious Equatorial Uqbar Orbis that Jimmy mentions during a scam is a reference to the Jorge Luis Borges story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". During...
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    Baghdad, from which a group of learned men and their like have emerged. Uqbar Yarshater, Ehsan (1983). The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 3 (2): The...
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  • Borges's short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" tells of an encyclopedia entry on what turns out to be the imaginary country of Uqbar. This leads the narrator...
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  • compared to the still undeciphered Voynich manuscript, the story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges, and the artwork of M. C. Escher and...
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    Perez Ibarra, Martin (2014). Señales del Dresden (in Spanish). Chile: Uqbar Editores. ISBN 978-956-9171-36-9. The story of German light cruiser Dresden...
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  • Mastronardi figures as a minor character in Borges's short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Mastronardi led a notoriously nocturnal existence. Writing...
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  • with fictional encyclopedias such as the Encyclopedia Galactica, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. James Joyce's...
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  • French novel, having the 'no e' restriction in both languages. "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", a story which contains a fictional world of people whose...
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  • for African-Americans. Uqbar Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Nation in Asia Minor in Jorge Luis Borges's 1940 short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" that is...
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  • novel, which consists of transcribing an audiobook of Don Quixote. "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" Monegal, Emir R., Alastair Reid (ed). (1981) Borges, A Reader...
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    company founded by Yarvin to build Urbit, named after the short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges, has received seed funding from various...
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    Anxiety. Borges refers to it in the final line of his short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". It also appears in the novel Sanshirō, written by Natsume...
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  • West Wing, and later on The Newsroom and IZombie (TV series). Equatorial Uqbar Orbis: Dictatorship in Africa originally depicted in Better Call Saul (S1:E10)...
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    60–92. List of people on the postage stamps of Ireland Solipsism "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" Yogacara and consciousness-only schools of thought Fumerton...
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    Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Jorge Luis Borges' 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.'". Atlantis. 31: 9–22 – via EBSCOhost. Poe, Edgar Allan...
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    Zoom back, Camera! El cine de Alejandro Jodorowsky, Santiago de Chile, Uqbar Editores. Dominguez Aragones, Edmundo (1980). Tres extraordinarios: Luis...
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