The book, which seems undecipherable, is actually an attempt to tell all the stories and all the possible outcomes of the characters life.
The narrator goes to a house to meet a friend who tells how he has discovered the secret of this man's ancestor. "The Garden of Forking Paths" - A Chinese soldier during World War I relates the story of how his ancestor had attempted to write a book and build a labyrinth. The story is followed up by a postscript in which the narrator reveals that the world at large has become aware of Tlön, and has become so enamored by its organized nature that the world has become to reshape and retell its own history to become that of Tlön. The narrator proceeds to expound upon the various aspects of Tlön, Uqbar and Orbis Tertius. It is a very structured and organized world.
This volume gives insight into the philosophy, language, history, and metaphysics of Tlön. He and his friends proceeded to search out more information on this book, they discover volume XI of the First Encyclopedia of Tlön. "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" - The narrator relates how he discovered an encyclopedia that had an additional entry for the fictitious country Uqbar. This is a collection of short stories and essays, so I will summarize each separately.
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