# John C. Wright on Borges & Wolfe *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Apr 2010* > 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. --- ### Gwern Branwen *19 Apr 2010, 23:42* http://johncwright.livejournal.com/331497.html Connects 3 Borges story to TBOTNS. I don't think the connections will be much controversial. (I do disagree with his theory of Borges as a parodist of non-theistic philosophy; that he sees Borges that way says more about Wright than Borges. Borges can't believe in the Christian God because, as he says in the introduction to _Book of Imaginary Beings_, the Trinity is more fantastic an imagining than any he could devise. To know theology is not to believe: "He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.") ``` gwern ``` ---