Quotes About Tlön

El contacto y el hábito de Tlön han desintegrado este mundo. Encantada por su rigor, la humanidad olvida y torna a olvidar que es un rigor de ajedrecistas, no de ángeles.

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time: it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory.

Things become duplicated in Tlön; they also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death.

a compass vibrated mysteriously… the letters around its edge corresponded to one of the alphabets of Tlön. Such was the first intrusion of this fantastic world into the world of reality.

Por eso, al final el mundo es invadido por Tlön, la realidad se disuelve y se altera. El narrador se refugia nuevamente en la lectura; en otro tipo de lectura esta vez, una lectura controlada, minuciosa, la lectura como traducción. El traductor es aquí el lector perfecto, un copista que escribe lo que lee en otra lengua, que copia, fiel, un texto, y en la minuciosidad de esa lectura olvida lo real.