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Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 02-12-2009
Toward the end of his strange and haunting 1940 story “Tln, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” Jorge Luis Borges described the origins of a conspiracy to inscribe in the “real world” first a fictional country, named Uqbar, and then, more ambitiously, an entire fictional planet, called Tln: In March of 1941 a letter written by Gunnary Erfjord was discovered in a book by Hinton which had belonged to Herbert Ashe. The envelope bore a cancellation from Ouro Preto; the letter completely elucidated the mystery of Tln. Its text corroborated the hypotheses of Martinez Estrada. One night in Lucerne or in London, in…

