Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!citrin From: citrin@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne Citrin) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Request for novels on bookshops and/or pipesmoking Message-ID: <11251@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 11:45:43 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.11251 Posted: Mon Dec 16 11:45:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Dec-85 02:20:08 EST References: <4274@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <11249@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: citrin@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Citrin) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 14 In article <11249@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> citrin@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Citrin) writes: > >Finally, I would recommend a short piece by Jorge Luis Borges called >something like "The Library in Babylon" or "The Labyrinth in Babylon" >(the name escapes me) which can be found in a paperback collection >of Borges' works called "Labyrinths." This piece was one of the >inspirations for Eco's book. > The Borges piece that I was referring to is "The Library of Babel," not to be confused with "The Lottery in Babylon," which can also be found in the same volume. Wayne Citrin (ucbvax!citrin)