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Civet quoted Josh and wrote:
Thecla's friend asked if the Fish was real, Father Inire told
her that for an image to exist without something to reflect
it is an impossibility. Therefore, the Fish would come into
being (I just now noticed that it is a Fish).
I always liked that, though it really reminds me something similar I read around the same time but cannot remember. I am tempted to say that it was something from Borges "Labyrinths", but I might be thinking that just because the subject of Borges is fresh.
Maybe elsewhere, as well, but certainly from Borges's THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS, entry "Fauna of Mirrors." Not to forget entry "Baldanders" (Gene Wolfe claims, in CASTLE OF THE OTTER/CASTLE OF DAYS this entry is the source of his Baldanders).
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