"...he deduced that the Library is total and that its shelves register all the possible combinations of the twenty-odd orthographical symbols... in other words, all that is given to express, in all languages. Everything: the minutely detailed history of the future, the archangels' autobiographies, the faithful catalogue of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, the demonstration of the falllacy of those catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of the true catalogue... the true story of your death, the translation of every book in all languages, the interpolations of every book in all books..."
