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sense of security.
In a passage that makes many postmodernist celebrations of freedom
and non-presence seem a bit sophomoric by comparison, Borges describes
with the necessary equivocation, but not without a certain wistfulness and
poignancy, how "the contact and the habit ofTlon have disintegrated this
world." He describes how the teaching of Tlon's harmonious but of
course purely fictitious history has already effaced the history that
governed in his childhood and that had at least the possibility of being
true: "already a fictitious past occupies in our memories the place of
another, a past of which we know nothing with certainty- not even that
it is false."
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