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		SideburnsOfDoom 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Face it: you're a crazy person It refers to Jorge Luis Borges, a writer of surreal and speculative stories. The one about the nigh-infinite library is best known (1) The one about the map, "On Exactitude in Science", is very short indeed https://kwarc.info/teaching/TDM/Borges.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel

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