> Borges gives a source in his article on the exactitude in science
> (Suarez Miranda: Viajes de varones prudentes, book 4, chapter XLV,
> Lerida 1658). Do you know whether such a book really existes???
> Probably not, but how knos more about it?
> Arne
I found the same quote in a text by Umberto Eco. He cites it as
chapter XIV. Eco describes this (diverting) text as an hommage to
Borges. I think you can find it in 'Diario Minimo'.
joachim
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> Sebastian Gurciullo wrote:
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> > if you are asking for a reference to this story in Foucault, i have no idea,
> > but if you are asking for a reference to the Borges story itself, i can
> > help. it can be found in *A Universal History of Infamy* (Penguin 1984), its
> > title is "Of Exactitude in Science", and it occurs on p. 131. It is short ...
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