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↰ answers Jim Jordan
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At 09:11 1998.01.31 -0800, you wrote:
Blind Ultan's library may allude to Alexandria (I suspect it doth), but is primarily Blind Borges's library in Buenos Aires. (Note the Borgesian intro to the series: I found this ms and translated it....).
Borges influenced Wolfe in another way. In his Encyclopaedia of Imaginary Creatures Borges speaks of a world beyond the mirror that plans invasion on our world. The first sign of such invasion shall be a fish that appears in a mirror. Also, a beast much like an alzabo is described in that book.
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