Uqbar

Klon Lukbar Orbis Tertius.

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

The mirror troubled the depths of a corridor in a country house on Gaona Street in Ramos Mejia.

The encyclopedia is fallaciously called the Anglo-American Encyclopedia, New York, 1917. and is a literal but delinquent reprint of the Encyclopedia Britannica of 1902.

We discovered, such a discovery is inevitable in the late hours of the night.

that mirrors have something monstrous about them.

Then Beoy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had declared that mirrors and copulation are abominable because they increase the number of men.

I asked him the origin of this memorable observation, and he answered that it was reproduced in the Anglo-American Cyclopedia, in its article on Uqbar.