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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