Earlier this week I read Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger – winner of the Man Booker prize for 2008. While a lot of reviewers have high praise for the novel, particularly the “new voice” it brings, I found the book to be quite ordinary. Though a fun read it is certainly not worthy of the [...]
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December 13, 2008
Mirrors and fatherhood
For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or (more precisely) a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply and disseminate that universe.
- Unnamed heresiarch of Uqbar
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Mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men.
- Unnamed heresiarch of Uqbar
From Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius – a do-I-even-need-to-specify-short [...]
