Michel Houellebecq’s early Lovecraft essay is now available in translation in Argentina, and this triggers a local newspaper to note that a copy of the Necronomicon once resided at the University of Buenos Aires, and that the nation’s favourite son Jorge Luis Borges was influenced by Lovecraft. The translation gets colloquially fuzzy from that point on, but seems to imply that Borges once faked and placed a library card for the Necronomicon in the national library card catalogue (libraries used to be indexed with long wooden boxes of paper-cards, kids). What follows then appears to be an amusingly scattergun Borgesian attempt to link Lovecraft with the apparently well-known local pop-singer Gustavo Cerati, so perhaps the article is not quite to be taken at face value.