Ficciones

Ficciones Uqbar, Tlon, Orbis Tertius Deception is the central idea of this piece. Had the doubtful quote of “mirrors and copulation are abominable for they multiply the number of mankind” been said by Bioy Casares, the quest to seek the truth of Uqbar would have never existed. This and many other mirror imagery throughout the piece contributes to the deception of reality topic symbolically. “Mirror troubled the far end of a hallway” because it creates an illusion that the hallway is twice as long as it should be. Deception causes the obscurity of truth—thus the truth that we seek might not be trust worthy. Therefore in attempt to do away with the deception caused by science, the Tlonians “presuppose idealism” by seeking “not truth, or even plausibility” only an enlightenment toward an ideally monistic universe. Yet to an even greater degree, the speaker realizes as he describes in the Postscript the creation of Tlon was a deception in itself. The nihilistic Ezra Buckley attempts to “deceive” God by theoretically playing God in the creation of Tlon—Buckley envisions deception, truth, god, world, piece, tlon, quest, yet, toward, strife, seek, religious, religion, reality, protagonist, nonexistent, monistic, monism, mirror, idea, himself, hallway, even, creation, borges, because, al-mu’tasim, caved, worthy, whether, uqbar, upon, universe, unitary, ultimately, ultimate