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  • 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

  • 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

  • A reader suggests a story by Bioy Casare's friend and collaborator Borges that might prove fascinating to Lost viewers: "'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,' which is about a decades-old conspiracy to make an imaginary world 'real.'" and so on ...

    Media Mentions 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • For example, his interest in philosophical idealism is reflected in the fictional world of Tlön in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, in his essay “A New Refutation of Time”, and in his poem “Things.”

    jorge luis borges | the destiny of borges « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • A reader suggests a story by Bioy Casare's friend and collaborator Borges that might prove fascinating to Lost viewers: "'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,' which is about a decades-old conspiracy to make an imaginary world 'real.'" and so on ...

    A Different Stripe: 2008

  • A reader suggests a story by Bioy Casare's friend and collaborator Borges that might prove fascinating to Lost viewers: "'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,' which is about a decades-old conspiracy to make an imaginary world 'real.'" and so on ...

    A Lost Round-up 2008

  • This evidence is also embedded within the results of each intervention of the Gazirae, from the amusement of the appearance in the Uqbar region, varying to confusion and even anger in other instances.

    She[s] got a hammer: Hammering the Void Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • He has been trying to contact the administrators at Uqbar, to fix the problem since yesterday morning however to this hour has been unable to do so, either in-world or through email.

    Whitetrash plays Whitenoise, Opera 1 Automatica of the Trivial Mechanisms Alpha Auer 2009

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