The Washington Post, May 6th, 2001
MR MEE By Andrew Crumey Picador USA. 344 pp. $25 Andrew Crumey begins Mr Mee by invoking Jorge Luis Borges as a sort of muse, though not by name. The eponymous character, an octogenarian amateur historian of independent means, comes across a reference to an ancient sect who believed fire was a living organism, and he becomes enthralled. The only citation or reference he can find directs him toward an obscure 18th-century encyclopedia said to elucidate an alternate theory of physics based on happenstance. "I owe my discovery of the Xanthics (and hence of Rosier's Encyclopaedia)," Mee tells his ...
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