Borges In The Popular Media

Seth Lombardi · 20 Apr 2005, 13:46 · from 2005-April.txt.gz

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From: sethlombardi at hotmail.com (Seth Lombardi)
Date: Wed Apr 20 13:46:14 2005
Subject: (urth) Borges In The Popular Media
Message-ID: <BAY2-F24C9CE6C52FADE86A5FAEDD72B0 at phx.gbl>

>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
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