A footnote in this story mentions a church which maintains the Platonic belief that "All men who repeat a line from Shakespea
A footnote in this story mentions a church which maintains the Platonic belief that "All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare." This story describes a language which expresses "the moon rose behind the river" with the sentence "upward behind the onstreaming it mooned," as well as a society scandalized by a paradox involving the existence of nine lost copper coins. Its narrator learns about those customs from a book sent to Herbert Ashe, and discovers that society thanks to "the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia." It ends pessimistically with the narrator describing hronir leaking into the real world, and warning reality will become dominated by a world invented to run on the abstract principles of Berkeleian idealism. For 10 points, name this short story by Jorge Luis Borges about the title conspiracy of thinkers, who imagine the title country in order to create the title world.
A footnote in this story mentions a church which maintains the Platonic belief that "All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.
"Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"