Sunday, February 23, 2003

TLON, UQBAR, ORBIS TERTIUS

Remember what I said about Interpol?

“[A] very daring hypothesis. This happy conjecture affirmed that there is only one subject, that this indivisible subject is every being in the universe and that these beings are the organs and masks of divinity. X is Y and is Z. Schopenhaur… formulates a very similar doctrine in the first volume of Parerga und Paralipomena.” – Jorge Luis Borges, “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”, Labyrinths.


[There is also an extremely cryptic message embedded in that post which, if you bring a poet to the table, you should be able to decipher. But this isn't a game: so ignore it. It's just ego. Suffice to say, if I didn't say this I could be sued. But I was making a point, Don.]