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a letter of babble

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"In order to grasp the distance that separates the human and the divine, one has only to compare these crude trembling symbols which my fallible hand scrawls on the cover of a book with the organic letters inside — neat, delicate, deep black, and inimitably symmetrical."— Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel (1941)Editorial note: The following document was found in a workshop in the lower galleries, dated to the third age. The original was typewritten on a single sheaf of unbound pages. Capit

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