Uqbar - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • British television's Lewis, broadcast in the UK by ITV and in the US by PBS as a part of Masterpiece Theater, used Uqbar as a clue in the episode "Allegory of Love." The word is scrawled in blood on a note found at a murder scene. The detectives get their information about it from an article on the subject on "Netipedia".

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