banal truth” this in itself is a contradiction
Mirror
At the end of the hallway, mirrors distort things (they flip the image)
“Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind” – The Anglo-American Cyclopaedia
When checked in the encyclopedia, Uqbar doesn’t exist
Bioy, the guest, finds the actual quote, which says: “For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are hateful because they multiply…
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