The Library of Babel

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by Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains all knowledge is an allegory of our Universe, and in this edition is complemented and enhanced by the etching of the French artist, Érik Desmazières.

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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

— Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel