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	Book of Imaginary Beings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jorge Luis Borges wrote and edited the Book of Imaginary Beings in 1969, expanding his original 1957 Spanish edition El Libro de los Seres Imaginarios.
		This book contains descriptions of 120 mythical beasts from folklore and literature.
		This article about a reference book is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings (104 words)

	Imaginary Beings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Imaginary Beings concerns both the interaction of fantasy and reality, and the construction or deconstruction of figures existing within the artists' imagination.
		There is a tradition of imaginary beings within the history of art: from Brueghel to Goya, from the folkloric to the conceptual, from storytelling to theater, from poetry to filmmaking.
		The inspiration for Imaginary Beings derives from Jorge Luis Borges' "The Book of Imaginary Beings," a poetic investigation into the creatures, monsters and figures embodied in ancient and modern lore.
	www.exitart.org /exhibit/95-96/beings.html (239 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Catalog 93, L
		The book was undertaken at the suggestion of Gertrude Bell, who was to provide an introduction for it but died shortly before it was finished.
		LeCarrÉ's first three books were written while he himself was working for British intelligence and his writing brought a new level of realism to the contemporary spy novel, especially in contrast to the then very popular fictions of Ian Fleming's James Bond.
		The author's first book, a collection of "narrative contemplations" of the desert, told in a poetic, lucid prose, the clarity and simplicity of which is uncommonly suited to the subtleties of perception and expression it contains.
	www.lopezbooks.com /catalog/93/93-05.html (1877 words)

	La Raza - The Book of Imaginary Beings: The Chinese Dragon
		The Book of Imaginary Beings: The Chinese Dragon
		Chinese cosmology teaches that the Ten Thousand Beings or Archetypes (the world) are born of the rhythmic conjunction of the two complementary eternal principles, the yin and the yang.
		Resumen: Chinese cosmology teaches that the Ten Thousand Beings or Archetypes (the world) are born of the rhythmic conjunction of the two complementary eternal principles, the yin and the yang.
	www.laraza.com /news.php?nid=29440 (495 words)

	The Book of Imaginary Beings By Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero, Translated by Andrew Hurley, Illustrated by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Borges (1899-1986) was educated in English in Geneva and had a varied career as a critic, literary writer and editor, teacher, lecturer and librarian (“I speak of God’s splendid irony in granting me at once 800,000 books and darkness,” he wrote, referring to the blindness that overtook him in his 50’s).
		Introducing the imaginary being “The Fastitcalon,” for example, Borges writes, “The Middle Ages believed that the Holy Spirit had composed two books.
		Borges does not believe everything he reads in the books, but he is fascinated, has a wry smile, and weaves beautiful and intricate designs with what he has read, which seems to be everything.
	www.americamagazine.org /BookReview.cfm?articleTypeID=31&textID=4683&issueID=565 (913 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Book of Imaginary Beings: Books: Jorge Luis Borges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amazon.ca: The Book of Imaginary Beings: Books: Jorge Luis Borges
		The Book of Imaginary Beings was co-authored with Margarita Guerrero.
		While I enjoyed perusing The Book of Imaginary Beings, this little collection is not among his best works.
	www.amazon.ca /Book-Imaginary-Beings-Jorge-Borges/dp/0099442639 (670 words)

	Book of Imaginary Beings, The - Jorge Luis Borges - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Book of Imaginary Beings, The - Jorge Luis Borges
		This book is a compendium of fantastical creatures from myth and folklore.
		Unlike its mediaeval equivalent, the bestiary, this is not to be read as moral allegory or as a practical handbook to be taken on journeys to the edge of the world.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/book-of-imaginary-beings-the-jorge-luis-borges (272 words)

	Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
		The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges
	www.librarything.com /card_card.php?book=77994 (474 words)

	Amazon.com: The Book of Imaginary Beings: Books: Jorge Luis Borges,Peter Sis,Andrew Hurley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amazon.com: The Book of Imaginary Beings: Books: Jorge Luis Borges,Peter Sis,Andrew Hurley
		I flipped out when I first picked up this book, being a huge fan of pretty much everything Borges has done, plus the whole idea of the book sounded fun...but really Borges is a bit too far in the background for me to really enjoy this.
		This book, by noted Argentinian writer, essayist and librarian Jorge Luis Borges, is one of the most complete and imaginitively compiled cyclopedias of mythical beings.
	www.amazon.com /Book-Imaginary-Beings-Jorge-Borges/dp/0670891800 (2344 words)

	Tingle Alley » 2005 » November (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It’s a nice subtle thing running through the book that Alison as she is in dialogue is always a weaker, more self-absorbed-sounding person (former model that she is) than the Alison we get in thought.
		This is not to reveal her as vain; it’s part of the book’s compassion for its characters, its awareness that what we’re able to express aloud is often a poor version of what we’re feeling & thinking.
		I kept being reminded as I was reading of the Renaissance thing of man’s place in the hierarchy between angels and demons and of Hamlet’s “What a piece of work is man” speech: Noble man, monkey man, dust man. They’re all here, asses sticking to the same bus.
	www.tinglealley.com /?m=200511 (4862 words)

	The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
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		The Bestiary : a Book of Beasts : Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century by T.
	www.librarything.com /card_card.php?work=23522 (324 words)

	Bookninja - Hearsay Archive August 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The complete series of illustrations for The Book of Imaginary Beings was done by the graduate students in the Department of Illustration and Art of the Book at the Vakalo School of Art and Design in Athens, Greece.
		That being the case, wasn't it silly for critics to sit at their feet, as it were, endlessly describing their attributes, one of which was style?
		The way it works now is akin to standing on line to purchase a book at your local brick and mortar bookstore and having the salesperson say to you at checkout, "Are you sure you wouldn't rather pay 1 dollar for that 24 dollar book?"...
	www126.pair.com /gmurray/bookninjabackup/board/hsarchive/aug_2004.htm (7871 words)

	Online Archaeology - The Borges Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Such perhaps is the general shape of my life; a sequence of books heard of, encountered, bought, borrowed and read, interspersed by quite irrelevant activities.
		Landau(1991) also refers to Borges (1970), relating the necessity of contingent narrative to the short story "The Garden of Forking Paths." Tester devotes considerable attention to the ideas of George Bernard Shaw; Shaw was a vegetarian, antivivisectionist and close friend of William Morris (he almost married Morris' daughter May).
		Meanwhile, in Labyrinths, one finds Borges article entitled, A note on (towards) Bernard Shaw, and in The Book of Imaginary Beings (1974: 78, 87-88) Borges also mentions William Morris poem The Life and Death of Jason and quotes at length from Morris' cycle of poems The Earthly Paradise.
	avebury.arch.soton.ac.uk /Journal/Graves/graves.html (2418 words)

	Amazon.com: The book of sand: Books: Jorge Luis Borges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Amazon.com: The book of sand: Books: Jorge Luis Borges
		In essence he is Literature and all he ever does is read himself to himself.But because he likes games and because the world has a certain intractability it is not enough for him to lose himself in such fantasies.
		THE BOOK OF SAND is another volume of such stories that range over many centuries and thousands of miles of geography.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0525069925?v=glance (2151 words)

	Bestiary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		So the unicorn and the dragon, the griffon and the sea serpent, and all their relations take refuge in the annals of folklore, until the fantastic and its adjudant, surrealism, release them once more into literary discourse from the prisons where rational inquiry had consigned them.
		A bestiary is a medieval book that has short descriptions of various real or imaginary animals, birds and even rocks.
		Bestiaries were among the most popular of medieval books, often tediously and lavishly illustrated, but the conditions of their use have until now never been satisfactorily explained.
	www.jahsonic.com /Bestiary.html (514 words)

	pretty cunning, don't you think? [deletia]
		I'm torn between being happy, that my boredom is going to be alleviated, and being troubled by the knowledge of the incipient work.
		-Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings, xii
		Books educate, inform, inspire; they also provide entertainment, bolster morale.
	prolix.pitas.com /19_01_2006.html (3320 words)

	Antlion Pit: The Mermecolion: From Bible to Bestiary to Borges
		He described his book as a "handbook of the strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination." One of these creatures is the Mermecolion:
		The composite "ant-lion" image was created from a photograph of a male African lion Panthera leo (licensed from Corel Corporation) and an illustration of a worker ant of the species Camponotus japonicus (from Gakken's Photo Encyclopedia, © 1979 Gakushu Kenkyusha).
		Several books by and about Jorge Luis Borges are available for purchase through The Antlion Pit Bookstore.
	www.antlionpit.com /borges.html (482 words)

	Direct Textbooks Price Comparison for ISBN 0486246094: The Book of Beasts : Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Book of Beasts : Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century
		This is indeed an excellent book for those interested in history and biology.
		~The Book of Beasts~ is a translation from Latin of a Twelfth century bestiary.
	www.directtextbook.com /price.php?p=prices&q=0486246094&shippingtime=8 (241 words)

	CITIES, edited by Peter Crowther (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Inspired by a fragment from Borges's The Book of Imaginary Beings, "The Tain" builds to a finish that will leave you shattered.
		He is an international bestseller, author of over eighty books, and the creator of two of the most significant characters in fantasy writing: Jerry Cornelius and Elric.
		Paul Di Filippo is the cutting edge of the new generation of American fantasy writers.
	www.4w8w.com /bookcrowther1.html (440 words)

	Insight Books - Legendary Creatures
		BOOK OF DRAGONS: Tales & Legends From Many Lands
		Dragons unicorns griffins and sea monsters are only some of the many fantastic animals that continue to enthrall people even though such creatures...
		BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS (translated by Andrew Hurley)
	www.insight-books.com /LGNC (131 words)

	growabrain: Books - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Archives
		Spinoza knew that all things long to persist in their being; the stone eternally wants to be a stone and the tiger a tiger.
		I shall remain in Borges, not in myself (if it is true that I am someone), but I recognize myself less in his books than in many others or in the laborious strumming of a guitar.
		Jorge Luis Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" from "The Book of Imaginary Beings".
	growabrain.typepad.com /growabrain/books_gabriel_garcia_marquez/index.html (1007 words)

	EXIT ART
		The film is an essay, based upon the Situationist theory of “detournement,” that is, the re-contextualized use of pre-existing images as a form of social critique.
		The book collects all Krassner’s most recent stories, as well as his most famous satirical pieces from past years.
		The book is Swiftian in intention and contemporary in subject matter.
	www.exitart.org /history/list95_96.html (4068 words)

	Playlist Nothing #1250
		The Book of Imaginary Beings: iv) A Bao a Qu
		The Book of Imaginary Beings: vii) Sirens
		The Book of Imaginary Beings: viii) Amphisbaena Retroversa
	www.wpkn.org /wpkn/go/nothing/1999/april/noth1250.html (912 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Table of Contents, November 20, 1969
		The Book of Imaginary Beings author by Jorge Luis Borges, by Margarita Guerrero.
		Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of intellectual biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey.
		In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work; in 2003, she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.
	www.nybooks.com /contents/19691120 (510 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		As the family becomes increasingly frustrated with Palafox’s ambiguity, their reactions become hostile, culminating in a stunning Palafox recipe section.
		Though Chevillard’s writing is often compared to Samuel Beckett, in Palafox it is more reminiscent of Julio Cortázar’s absurd processes in Cronopios and Famas or Borges’s magical bestiary in his The Book of Imaginary Beings.
		Indefinable and untamable, Palafox is an impossible pet even when on his best behavior; he remains a wild beast—wildest perhaps in his blurriness and uncertainty.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/05_3/palafox.html (256 words)

	Europe - Dragons and Dinosaurs [The Great Dinosaur Mystery] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A well-known, old science book, the Historia Animalium, claims that "dragons" were not extinct in the 1500's.
		But the animals were said to be extremely rare and relatively small by then.
		Jorge Luis Borges, THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS (NYC: Dutton, 1969), p.240.
	www.christiananswers.net /dinosaurs/j-dragon3.html (101 words)

	MonkeyFilter \| The Book of Sand
		The Book of Sand -- The pages of the Book of Sand are infinite and randomly numbered.
		The pages of Borges' story The Book of Sand, as presented here, are also randomly numbered, but conveniently, there are only eight of them.
		Fantastic Zoology The complete series of illustrations for The Book of Imaginary Beings.
	monkeyfilter.com /link.php/3237 (422 words)

	Cowlix: December 25, 2002 Archives
		Robert Kirk: Walker Between Worlds: the full text of R.J. Stewart's book containing a modern English translation of Kirk's The Secret Commonwealth, which was originally written in 1691 and documents the little people of Celtic tradition.
		a slightly more archaic form of the Kirk's book.
		Fantastic Zoology: the full text of Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings, illustrated by students of the Vakalo School of Art and Design.
	www.cowlix.com /wcowley/log/2002/12/25 (67 words)

	beings - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		beings : Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
		Phrases that include beings: human beings, book of imaginary beings, cosmic beings, culture of human beings, extraterrestrial beings, more...
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	fUSION Anomaly. Jorge Luis Borges
		He is known for his original short fiction, e.g., A Universal History of Infamy (1935), Ficciones (1944), The Book Of Imaginary Beings (1957), and The Book of Sand (1975).
		It is a kind of Borgesian concept that there must be, somewhere, an unreadable book, and perhaps this is it.
		Although more oriented toward design and philosophy, highly technical posts are welcomed, including even source code, since, as Marvin Minsky said, "programming is a good medium for expressing poorly-understood and sloppily-formulated ideas" The name "Tlon" is taken from Jorge Luis Borges _Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius_, a short story about a fictional encyclopedia.
	fusionanomaly.net /jorgeluisborges.html (1425 words)

	MuggleNet \| The Book Trolley - Reader-Recommended Titles
		Recommendations that do not specify a title refer to an author's body of work in general.
		If you recommended it, but it doesn't show up on this list, you may see a review of it on The Book Trolley pretty soon.
		The symbol means the work may contain material unsuitable for children, while refers to suspected occult content.
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