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A guy on the BBC World Service just said that the existence of dinosaurs like this had been predicted, prior to their discovery. It reminded me of a story by Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, in which (obliquely, as with just about every thing the redoubtable Argentinian wrote) a group of people try to bring a world into existence by the power of thought alone. IIRC, an essential component is the discovery of archaeological remnants *because* such objects must exist. Perhaps, as Borges describes in the story, Tlön is coming into existence...
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:27:54 +0000

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