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TLON, UQBAR,
ORBIS TERTIUS

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The unnerving mirror hung at the end of a corridor in a villa on Calle Goana, in Ramos Mejia; the misleading encyclopedia goes by the name of The AngloAmerican Cyclopedia (New York, 1917), and is a literal if inadequate reprint of the 1902 Encyclopaedia Britannica.


Copyright 1962 by Grove Press, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

Translated from the Spanish
1956 by Emcee Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires
First Printing
Manufactured in the United States of America.

To

Esther Zemborain de Torres