(urth) Quotations

[Adam Thornton]

On 01/01/2011 09:49 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Same here. I would guess they are more "in the style of" an author 
> than direct quotes.
>
> On 1/1/2011 10:42 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> Welcome!
>> What's the question?  I'm guessing you are asking where the apparent 
>> quotations come from.
>> I did a google search out of curiosity but found nothing useful.  
>> Perhaps Wolfe got them somewhere obscure, or perhaps he invented 
>> them!  Maybe somebody else has a clue.
>> - Gerry Quinn

Well, given the source, I would expect them to be found in Borges.  And 
given that Borges did not originally write in English, it seems 
plausible that we're seeing Wolfe's translation, which is not 
necessarily word-for-word anyone else's, and so it might therefore make 
sense that you couldn't find it with Google.

Someone with a much more encyclopedic knowledge of Borges than I might 
be able to say whether it's a quotation or just something that sounds 
kinda like Borges.

Adam