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Part One, The Garden of Forking Paths, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

• A group of friends is discussing mirrors when someone mentions a quote about the country of Uqbar.

• The group searches for the reference to Uqbar in the encyclopedia, but cannot find it.

• The man who made reference to Uqbar brings his encyclopedia to his friends to prove the reference.

• The narrator is baffled by the discrepancies in the two supposedly identical encyclopedias.
• After the death of family friend, Herbert Ashe, the narrator discovers "The First Encyclopedia of Tlon" among Ashe's belongings.

• The narrator reads about the land of Tlon, discovering the unusual philosophies of its inhabitants.

• The narrator learns that Uqbar and Tlon are the invention of a group who the intended to create a pretend country, and then a pretend planet.

• Fictional objects from Tlon become real in the narrator's world.

• The narrator believes that his...

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