Truth is Stranger than Ficciones

Via Peg Kerr's LiveJournal, an ABC News story that says we're living in a Jorge Luis Borges story:

So what is in the Gospel of Judas? It is a dialogue that claims to be a conversation between Jesus and Judas in which Jesus asks Judas to betray him.

(And of course, you just know it has a webpage...)

Uqbar, here we come...

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