A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön, Vol XI, Hlaer to Jangr

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A First Encyclopaedia of Tlön, Vol XI, Hlaer to Jangr

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First mentioned in Borges’ Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

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The encyclopedia describes a world of Berkeleyan idealism, a society whose classical culture is composed chiefly of the discipline of psychology, to which all others are suborned. Tlön was created by a mysterious organization of intellectuals known as Orbis Tertius, who have collectively written out its defining encyclopedia (rather like the work on the Septuagint). Contact with Tlön continues the gradual process of reforming our entire world into itself.