![]() ![]() Mirrors and fatherhood are hateful because they multiply and proclaim it" (69). ![]() The following day, Bioy brings him a copy containing the entry on Uqbar, with the actual quotation Casares had paraphrased: "For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. ![]() Casares believed that Uqbar, along with the quotation, was catalogued in The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia, but Borges finds no such entry in his copy. This is particularly apparent in the imaginary metaphysical realm of Tlön.īorges first learns about Uqbar in 1935 from his friend, Bioy Casares, who, during a discussion about first-person novels with unreliable narrators, quotes a saying he remembers from a heresiarch of Uqbar: "Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind" (68). Fantastical in nature, it can be viewed as an allegorical critique of religion. This story recounts the events of Borges discovering the chronicles of a world which was invented by a secret society, and which slowly penetrates the real world. ![]()
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