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+  From: T P Uschanov <tuschano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:53:30 -0700
M. A. King wrote:

> Some weeks ago, someone asked if anyone knew the title of the Borges story
> that Foucault refers to at the beginning of _The Order of Things_; the
> same question was recently asked over on the Deleuze-Guattari list, and
> was answered thusly: "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins", which is
> collected in _Borges, A Reader_.
>
> Standard disclaimers apply, because I haven't yet tracked it down
> myself, but hopefully this solves the mystery. :)

The essay is available in English, along with bibliographic data, at
http://www.jbi.hioslo.no/2c11/wilkins.htm -- and very good it is too.

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