Library of Babel

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Index № 000000000000 of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456

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The Search Ritual

Type any name, word, or wish. It already has a fingerprint waiting on some shelf.

On the nature of this wing

Just as the mythical Library holds every arrangement of letters, this wing holds every arrangement of ridge and whorl. Its collection numbers 2¹²⁸ volumes — more than the atoms in ten thousand galaxies. Every address you enter has always pointed to the same print. You do not create these fingerprints. You merely find them.

"The Library is total and its shelves register all the possible combinations of the ridges of the fingertips." — after Borges