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  • One of the most insightful pieces she published on Borges was "A Postmodern Approach to Fictional History in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and the Asceticism of Ezra Buckley" in which Palin brilliantly deconstructed the notion of history relative to the character, Ezra Buckley, in a way that the late Jacques Derrida wrote, "Je m'em branle!"

    Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It? Mark Axelrod 2011

  • One of the most insightful pieces she published on Borges was "A Postmodern Approach to Fictional History in Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and the Asceticism of Ezra Buckley" in which Palin brilliantly deconstructed the notion of history relative to the character, Ezra Buckley, in a way that the late Jacques Derrida wrote, "Je m'em branle!"

    Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It? Mark Axelrod 2011

  • That didn't go wasted on Palin who not only read Borges, but, in only her way, understood Borges and the one short story that stood out for her more than any other in that classic collection was that most protean of all short stories, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

    Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It? Mark Axelrod 2011

  • That didn't go wasted on Palin who not only read Borges, but, in only her way, understood Borges and the one short story that stood out for her more than any other in that classic collection was that most protean of all short stories, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

    Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It? Mark Axelrod 2011

  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, one of the greatest short stories written by Jorge Luis Borges, about a race of people who gets so involved in building a map of the world they forget that the world exists.

    Fast Company Cliff Kuang 2010

  • Its existence is thin and dependent; it's like the hrönir in the Borges story Tlön, Uqbar and Orbis Tertius, objects that exist only because someone thought they did.

    Conscious Entities 2009

  • Text inspired by Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges.

    World Famous Design Junkies » 2009 » March 2009

  • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and its possible connections with Lost by King of Bob | LOST Theories

    Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and its possible connections with Lost by King of Bob 2007

  • Uqbar, Orbis Tertius "another world - one whose inhabitants inhabit a realm of pure thought - floods from the pages of an encyclopaedia to overwhelm our own.

    SpikeMagazine.com Ben Granger 2010

  • Uqbar, Orbis Tertius "another world - one whose inhabitants inhabit a realm of pure thought - floods from the pages of an encyclopaedia to overwhelm our own.

    SpikeMagazine.com 2010

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