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From: "Joe Leighly" <jussive@eskimo.com> Subject: (urth) Known allusion? Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 21:06:13 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00BD_01BF969D.F41C23E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I noticed this once. No doubt it's been considered and either rejected or accepted a long time ago, but I haven't read much = commentary. =20 1. Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths": =20 "'I see that the worthy Hsi P'eng has troubled himself to see to=20 relieving my solitude. No doubt you want to see the garden?'" =20 [narrator is then shown a book, which is the garden, and subsequently kills the other] =20 2. Wolfe, Claw of the Conciliator, end of Ch. XX: =20 "and I said, 'Then you can show me where the garden is.'" =20 [ditto] =20 1:2::time:space =20 Joseph ------=_NextPart_000_00BD_01BF969D.F41C23E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Hello, I noticed this once. No = doubt it's=20 been considered and either<BR>rejected or accepted a long time ago, but = I=20 haven't read much commentary.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>1. Borges, "The Garden of = Forking=20 Paths":</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>"'I see that the worthy Hsi = P'eng has=20 troubled himself to see to <BR>relieving my solitude. No doubt you = want to=20 see the garden?'"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>[narrator is then shown a book, = which is the=20 garden, and subsequently<BR>kills the other]</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2><BR>2. Wolfe, Claw of the = Conciliator, end of=20 Ch. XX:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>"and I said, 'Then you can show = me where=20 the garden is.'"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>[ditto]</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2><BR>1:2::time:space</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 = size=3D2><BR>Joseph</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00BD_01BF969D.F41C23E0-- *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/