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The Myth of Uqbar
Inside a lonely and unique copy of the volume XVI of the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia Borges and Bioy Casares found the first notice about Uqbar and with it, the first clue to reach Tlön. This unique issue (no other has any article on Uqbar) was lost with Borges' life though the curious reader might find it hidden somewhere among the many old antique shops in San Telmo, Buenos Aires.
In this rare book Uqbar (or Ukkbar as it appears in the literature) is described as a zone limited to the south by the lowlands of Tsai Jaldun and the Axa delta.
Maybe the most important fact about the Uqbarian culture is that its literature repeateadly alludes to the imaginary land of Tlön, a realm created by Uqbar's intellectual elite just like Thomas More's Utopia.
Borges has discovered that Uqbar actually was also an imaginary land, the result of a philosophical quest of an intellectual elite who pursued the creation of a "virtual" country that were free from the sins of the known world.
Johannes Valentinus Andreä, a german theologian who belonged to this elite, was the first to write about Uqbar and its fantastic literature early in 1641. Unfortunately most of his writings were lost in the Great Purgue of Prague during 1673 and the only references we got about them are De Quincey's and the ones from the founders of a well known Lodge, the Rosa Cruscae.
The Buckley Project
Ezra Buckley an american millionaire who knew the secrets of the Cabala ran into the Uqbarian literature near 1870 and decided to refound the lost Tlön cult by secretly organizing a society of scientists, artists and intellectuals. However Bucley's idea was that of the creation of a PLANET instead of a virtual nation. This society's secret goal was to gain a "connection" or "link" with the inmaterial realm of Tlön by writing books that fully describe its original features, including botany, zoology, architectonic schools, music and every possible detail.
The Tlön Secret Society, as they called to themselves, gathered this titanic intellectual effort in a very rare and mistical work: The First Encyclopaedia of Tlön. The copies of the encyclopaedia's forty volumes were distributed among the Society members and no one else has seen them. By reading its innumerable pages, the voyager (the reader), should have been able to reach this wonderland.
Only a few people have reported the reality of the existence of this Encyclopaedia. It is kown that one of the copies was lost in a fire at the Arkham Public Library in 1937. The remaining volumes are still lost, probably scattered around the world.
Just a Myth ?
In the last forty or fifty years there have been reports of people finding objects that could only have come from Tlön. Strange obelisks made of a supernatural dense material were discovered in South America. These obelisks were identified as the ones described by Johannes Andreä four centuries ago.
Have the Tlönist found a way to reach Tlön ? Is Tlön gradually getting through our reality ? Nobody knows.
Maybe you were the chosen to find out
Can anyone tell me if this game is interesting and if it is difficult for a simple user to set up on their computer?
http://pyzzle.sourceforge.net/
O R B I S - T E R T I U S
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The Myth of Uqbar
Inside a lonely and unique copy of the volume XVI of the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia Borges and Bioy Casares found the first notice about Uqbar and with it, the first clue to reach Tlön. This unique issue (no other has any article on Uqbar) was lost with Borges' life though the curious reader might find it hidden somewhere among the many old antique shops in San Telmo, Buenos Aires.
In this rare book Uqbar (or Ukkbar as it appears in the literature) is described as a zone limited to the south by the lowlands of Tsai Jaldun and the Axa delta.
Maybe the most important fact about the Uqbarian culture is that its literature repeateadly alludes to the imaginary land of Tlön, a realm created by Uqbar's intellectual elite just like Thomas More's Utopia.
Borges has discovered that Uqbar actually was also an imaginary land, the result of a philosophical quest of an intellectual elite who pursued the creation of a "virtual" country that were free from the sins of the known world.
Johannes Valentinus Andreä, a german theologian who belonged to this elite, was the first to write about Uqbar and its fantastic literature early in 1641. Unfortunately most of his writings were lost in the Great Purgue of Prague during 1673 and the only references we got about them are De Quincey's and the ones from the founders of a well known Lodge, the Rosa Cruscae.
The Buckley Project
Ezra Buckley an american millionaire who knew the secrets of the Cabala ran into the Uqbarian literature near 1870 and decided to refound the lost Tlön cult by secretly organizing a society of scientists, artists and intellectuals. However Bucley's idea was that of the creation of a PLANET instead of a virtual nation. This society's secret goal was to gain a "connection" or "link" with the inmaterial realm of Tlön by writing books that fully describe its original features, including botany, zoology, architectonic schools, music and every possible detail.
The Tlön Secret Society, as they called to themselves, gathered this titanic intellectual effort in a very rare and mistical work: The First Encyclopaedia of Tlön. The copies of the encyclopaedia's forty volumes were distributed among the Society members and no one else has seen them. By reading its innumerable pages, the voyager (the reader), should have been able to reach this wonderland.
Only a few people have reported the reality of the existence of this Encyclopaedia. It is kown that one of the copies was lost in a fire at the Arkham Public Library in 1937. The remaining volumes are still lost, probably scattered around the world.
Just a Myth ?
In the last forty or fifty years there have been reports of people finding objects that could only have come from Tlön. Strange obelisks made of a supernatural dense material were discovered in South America. These obelisks were identified as the ones described by Johannes Andreä four centuries ago.
Have the Tlönist found a way to reach Tlön ? Is Tlön gradually getting through our reality ? Nobody knows.
Maybe you were the chosen to find out
Can anyone tell me if this game is interesting and if it is difficult for a simple user to set up on their computer?
http://pyzzle.sourceforge.net/
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