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The Library of Babel

Jorge Luis Borges

Form
Form Short Story
Year
Year 1941
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 10

The universe is a single endless library holding every possible book, and its librarians wander the hexagons, driven to sects and despair hunting the one book that explains it all.

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries
The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges

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