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M is for Nottingham? "the last letter of the Name has been written"
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The refrain - "the
last letter of the Name has been written" -
is adapted from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, "Death and the
Compass." In another of his Ficciones, Borges
writes:
"The Garden of Forking Paths is an enormous guessing game, or parable, in which the subject is time. The rules of the game forbid the use of the word itself. To eliminate a word completely, to refer to it by means of inept phrases and obvious paraphrases, is perhaps the best way of drawing attention to it." Our question might be, then, what word is NOT being used in the M is for Nottingham? that might have been? Become a Sleuth, Player, Writer, or Suspect! |
