Herbert Ashe

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also known as Ashe

Railway engineer

A taciturn English railway engineer and acquaintance of the narrator's father, who receives the Eleventh Volume of the First Encyclopaedia of Tlön from Brazil shortly before dying of a ruptured aneurysm in 1937.

In Ficciones (Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius) (Jorge Luis Borges, 1944)

Possibly the same character

Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.