Borges and Dodgson
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Jan 1998
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Dan Parmenter — 28 Apr 1998, 17:18

Just for the record, Borges didn't just work "at some library in
Argentina" as one writer suggested.  He worked at a city library from
1937 to 1946, when the Peron regime made him a chicken inspector (no
lie!).  Post-Peron, he was made Director of the National Library in
Buenos Aires.

So the fit with Master Ultan seems a good one and one that almost
anyone with the slightest familiarity with Borges' life would
recognize immediately.

Just out of curiosity, has Wolfe admitted to the Father Inire as Lewis
carroll thing?  I can certianly see it, though it seems more vague
than the Ultan case.

D

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Pedro Jorge Romero — 02 Jan 1998, 21:13
  follows, by subject match Dan Parmenter

> So the fit with Master Ultan seems a good one and one that almost
> anyone with the slightest familiarity with Borges' life would
> recognize immediately.

Well, Master Ultan even sort of quotes Borges.

Pedro Jorge

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