# Borges In The Popular Media *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 17 Apr 2005* > 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. --- ### Jeff Wilson *17 Apr 2005, 15:37* Borges and his "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" were mentioned on last Sunday's (4/10/05) "The L Word" television drama on Showtime in the US, in particular as part of a curriculum where a notoriously demanding teacher assignes the creation of a sequel to it in another medium, IIRC. ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` --- ### Philip Loguinov *19 Apr 2005, 10:03 · in reply to Jeff Wilson* It's funny that they chose that particular story, as at it's beginning, Wolfe's entire writing strategy is laid out by Bioy Cesares (if I rememeber the spelling correctly). Philip Loguinov --- ### Seth Lombardi *20 Apr 2005, 13:46 · follows Philip Loguinov* > Borges and his "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" were mentioned on last Sunday's > (4/10/05) "The L Word" television drama on Showtime in the US, in > particular as part of a curriculum where a notoriously demanding teacher > assignes the creation of a sequel to it in another medium, IIRC. Ah! That's interesting because I just picked up the first trade paperback of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, and the first story arc in it is essentially just that. In fact, I have to wonder if the person who wrote that episode didn't have Morrison directly in mind. seth ***************************** Seth Lombardi sethlombardi at hotmail.com http://sethlombardi.blogspot.com/ AIM: melombardi "Two faces are alike; neither is funny by itself, but side by side their likeness makes us laugh" -Pascal ---