# Civet fishes Borges *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Jul 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *29 Jul 2003, 19:42* >> 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). =mantis= ---