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Reaction to Hattingh's genealogical bombshell ranged from outraged denials to bemusement. Fumed Louis Stofberg, general secretary of the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party: "I'd like to see the bastard who can find a drop of colored blood in my family!" Albert Tertius Myburgh, Afrikaner editor of the national Sunday Times, took a positive view, describing the "swelling of African pride" he felt at the racial revelation...
...essay A New Refutation of Time contains a self-effacing shuffle. Borges disarms that ancient foe, ineffability, by questioning his own existence. He has done so in dozens of fanciful tales bearing such tantalizing labels as Death and the Compass, Funes, the Memorious and Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. Despite his arcane references, the aging (78), blind, Argentine author has gained a worldwide readership. His ficciones have also attracted numerous imitators - none of whom have the old man's grace, wit and almost magical skills of compression. A Borges story is like some spring-loaded plaything that unexpectedly...
...Ultraism, a literary offshoot of Dadaism. Later, back in Argentina, he wrote poetry and essays for avant-garde journals, and edited anthologies of Argentine literature, including a book of detective stories. But it was not until the late '30s that Borges wrote Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, one of the first and perhaps best known of his short fictions...
...TERTIUS CHANDLER Göteborg, Sweden
...defense budget will reach a record high of $180 million). Reporting on "sabotage schools" in neighboring black countries, Justice Minister Vorster said: "We are dealing with stupid people who are power-drunk. But we are ready for whatever they are planning against South Africa." Said Afrikaaner Student Leader Tertius Delport, referring to the country's growing international isolation: "The white South African has become the polecat of the world...